At that time the population of Seychelles consisted of 317 French, 86 free blacks and creoles and 3015 slaves mainly of African and Mada¬gascan origin. The terms of the first capitulation were such that Quéau de Quincy remained as Commandant even if the Seychelles had become a British possession. Consequently, he devised a stratagem that he used until the final capitulation in 1811. It enabled him to receive French vessels that arrived for repairs and provisions and at the same time avoided a military confrontation with the Royal Navy.

Each time a French vessel appeared he would hoist the French Tricolour and when he saw a British vessel he would fly the Union Jack! In 1811 when the British appointed Bartholomew Sullivan as Commissioner, Jean-Baptiste Quéau de Quincy was given the post of Juge de Paix (Judge of the Peace). He was made a chevalier of St. Louis in 1815. He died in 1827 at the age of 79. His second wife Marie-Joseph Dubail whom he married in 1794 rests beside him. She died in 1809 at 38 years old. A 6-year-old child, Isidore Henriette Roselmie Lefebvre de Maccy is also buried in the sepulcher. She died in 1828. Some British chief civil commissioners are also buried here, namely William Hales Franklyn who died in 1874 aged 58 years, and Francis Theophilus Blunt who died in 1882 at 43 years old.

The last person to be buried in the State House cemetery was Governor John Kingsmill Robert Thorp who drowned at Grand Anse on 13th August 1961 together with his financial secretary.