Support of the Pennsylvania Volunteers

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Type

Autograph Draft

Description

Mahlon is ordered to join the command at Reading whose mission is to act in support of the Pennsylvania volunteers who are marching against the insurgents at Northampton.

Date

03/18/1799

Recipient

Sent from

New York

Collection

Document number

1799031837200

Note

Cited in Dayton to Hamilton, 03/20/1799.

Notable persons

Mahlon Ford
Alexander Hamilton
two companies of Artillerists under the command of Captain Henry
2nd Regiment
Lieutenant Boote with a party of infantry
Captain Shoemaker with a company of infantry
Captain Irvine with a Company of Artillerists

Notable locations

near Morris Town
New York
New Town in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Amboy
Brunswick
Frederick Town, Maryland
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Fort Mifflin
Reading

Notable items

united under one command
support of the Pennsylvania volunteers against the insurgents of Northampton
union of the whole Corps
orders of the Secretary of War [McHenry] and Brigadier General McPherson