John Brown, Dictionary of National Biography… (1889)
“ During the twenty years of his residence in this town he published seven books of psalm and hymn tunes harmonised for four voices; a chorus for five voices—‘Blessings for ever on the Lamb’ (1825?) ; a song, ‘The Negro Slave’ (1825) ; ‘Progressive Exercises for the Voice, with illustrative examples’ (1826) ; ‘Observations on Psalmody’ (1828?) ; and in 1829 the ‘Rudiments of Music,’ the eleventh thousand of which was issued with the author's final revisions in 1843. Besides these musical productions Ford also published a sermon on John xi. ”
