Jacob Ford was commissioned captain of the 4th Company in the 9th Regiment of Militia of Foot in the County of Albany.
Hueston was implicated in the raising of volunteers who took an oath of secrecy and allegiance to the King of Great Britain.
July 18, 1778 Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Ford wrote a letter to General Abraham Ten Broeck informing him that today the New York Settlement called Springfield had been burnt and destroyed by Tories & Indians.
This letter is included in Governor George Clinton's Papers[5] and was forwarded to General George Washington on July 21, 1778[6] It was later reported that it was Joseph Brant the Mohawk Chieftain who burnt the entire settlement except for a single house where Brant left the remaining women and children unharmed.
[8] In 1792 Jacob was elected to the New York State Assembly to represent the newly formed Columbia County.