Fouquet
Fouquet
FOUQUET. Nicholas Fouquet and his son Marc (or Mark) accompanied Coudray from France in 1777 as bearers of commissions from Silas Deane. Nicholas held a commission as a captain-bombier and Marc as a lieutenant. Congress begrudgingly approved their commissions on 7 November 1777 but offered to facilitate their return to France by covering their expenses. As experts in the production of gunpowder, they offered a counterproposal, and so the Board of War employed them in 1778 to make powder and inspect powder magazines.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ford, Worthington C. et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1904–1937.
Smith, Paul H. et al., eds. Letters of Delegates of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789. 26 vols. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976–2000.
revised by Robert Rhodes Crout