[PW] Launoy

[Fuller, Thomas (US - Washington D.C.)]

I strongly suspect that you're right about Launoy's first name being
lost.  In <Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology> by
Lance Day and Ian Mcneil, which is pretty darned complete, only his last
name is given.  For what it's worth, <Our Debt to France>, an
unattributed work published by the Washington Lafayette Institution in
1926, says that Launoy helped George Washington during the American
Revolution.  According to another source, Launoy arrived in the United
States on July 29, 1777;  this cites Balch, The French in America during
the War of Independence, for the date, so if anyone has the Balch book
one might peek in there.

-- Tom 

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