1From George Washington to John Hancock, 5 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
“The Enemy Endeavoring to flank us on the Left I ordered [Lt.] Colo [Benjamin] Fords [6th Maryland] Regiment to the other side the [Germantown] Road to Repulse them till General Wains Division arrived & upon finding that our Left wing [Greene’s column] (which had over four miles further to march...
2To George Washington from the Officers of General Smallwood’s Division, 10 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
...to the 5th Maryland Regiment. In August 1780 he was wounded and taken prisoner at Camden, S.C., and after his exchange later that year he transferred to the 4th Maryland Regiment. Benjamin Ford (d. 1781) was appointed a first lieutenant in Smallwood’s Maryland militia regiment in January 1776 and received his promotion to captain that summer; in early 1777 Ford became major of the...
3To George Washington from Maryland Officers, 16 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
Benjamin Ford Lt Colo. 6th M. Regt
4To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Ford, 26 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
From Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin FordBenjamin Ford
5From George Washington to John Jay, 28 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
Benjamin Ford to GW, 26 April
6From George Washington to William Livingston, 28 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
Benjamin Ford to GW, 26 April
7From George Washington to Major General Alexander McDougall, 28 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
Benjamin Ford to GW, 26 April
8From George Washington to Major General Israel Putnam, 28 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
Benjamin Ford to GW, 26 April
9From George Washington to John Jay, 29 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
Benjamin Ford to GW, 26 April
10From George Washington to William Livingston, 29 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
Benjamin Ford to GW, 26 April