"....Rob, when I get some spare time I'm going to publish some photos of some other original newspaper articles about JL written in 1823...I'm particularly interested in how Jean Laffite met his demise and want to get to the bottom of it...
Also I want to prove if he had any surviving children and I'd like to know what happened to them,,,,,there are many Cubans today with the surname "Laffite/Lafitte/Laffitte/Lafita" and some claim to be decendants but I've seen no conclusive proof..... some Cuban websites claim he left a daughter in Cayo Cristo, she later moved to Sagua La Grande and her married name became Maria Laffite Rodriguez...others claim he and Pierre bought a ranch in the outskirts of Havana (now inside the city limits) with the proceeds of their espionage earnings and some of their kids settled there later (but were in school in France when their fathers passed away).... the "Laffite House" still stands in the suburb of "Jesus Del Monte" and Ernie Hartmann took photos of it which I will publish later (the laptop with all my photos crashed and it's time-consuming to recover them...don't ever buy a Windows-driven computer...Apple is by far the best!!!!!!!!)...the Catholic Church across teh street from teh "Laffite House" supposedy has some crumbling (baptismal/death/etc) records from the1820's-60's and we want to go through them in detail because if the Laffite children lived nearby they'd probably show up in the records.... I'm trying to trace the title to the "Laffite house" but Fidel and Raul Castro aren't allowing this at the moment because they feel that it will open up American lawsuits to recover seized properties....so we are hoping that Cuba opens up soon....
....thanks for your interest and comments...
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