From Alexander Hamilton to Mahlon Ford, 6 May 1799
To Mahlon Ford, 6 May 1799
New York May 6th 1799
Sir,
You will please to direct Lieutenant Heaton immediately to proceed to Fort Jay. Should you conceive that he can be spared from Captain Cochran’s company
Major Ford.
(Df, in the handwriting of Philip Church, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).