 After the young nation's capital was temporarily moved to Washington-on-the-Brazos, in 1842 during the Archive War, Dubois' house was abandoned.The French government recalled Count de Saligny in 1846, when Texas was annexed by the United States.The mansion was later occupied by John Mary Odin, first Bishop of the Diocese of Galveston, and then Moseley Baker, a veteran of the Texas Revolution, in 1847.