1. The cheese that Clark & Nightingale forwarded to GW probably had been taken from the brig Brothers, bound from Liverpool, England, to New York. The Rhode Island privateer sloop Success had brought the prize into Providence on 4 June (see American Journal, and General Advertiser [Providence], 6 June). The cargo, which included “English Cheese,” was scheduled for auction on 18 June (see Providence Gazette; and Country Journal, 9 June).

Major General the baron de Vioménil commanded the division with the Royal Deux-Ponts regiment that left Providence on 19 June to join GW’s army in New York. His brother, Major General the comte de Vioménil, left Providence with his division and the Soissonnais regiment on 20 June (see the entry for 18–19 June in Acomb, Closen Journal description begins Evelyn M. Acomb, ed. The Revolutionary Journal of Baron Ludwig von Closen, 1780–1783. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1958. description ends , 84; see also Rice and Brown, American Campaigns of Rochambeau’s Army description begins Howard C. Rice, Jr., and Anne S. K. Brown, eds. The American Campaigns of Rochambeau’s Army, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783. 2 vols. Princeton, N.J., 1972. description ends , 2:9).

2. GW replied to the firm Clark & Nightingale from headquarters near Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., on 14 July: “Your agreable Favor of the 19th ulto—⅌ Gnl Viominil—with its very pleasing Attendant, is come safe to Hand—for which you will please to accept my warmest Thanks.

“That our Enemies Consignments are so often divested from the Point of their Intention, is matter of very pleasing Satisfaction to me—and you may be assured Gentlemen that I am particularly rejoiced that Fortune has so often cast her Favors into your Lap” (Df, in Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW).