Edward Jessup

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Edward Jessup
Born	December 24, 1735 Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut Colony, British America
Died	February 3, 1816 Prescott, Upper Canada
Allegiance	Kingdom of Great Britain
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1759–1795
Rank	Lieutenant Colonel
Unit	New York Militia (1759-1760) King's Royal Regiment of New York (1776) King's Loyal Americans (1777-1780) Jessup's Rangers (1781-1783) Elizabethtown and Augusta Militia Battalion(1788-1795)
Commands held	Jessup’s Rangers (1781-83) Elizabethtown and Augusta Militia Battalion (1788-95)
Battles/wars	French and Indian War Second Battle of Fort Ticonderoga American Revolutionary War Saratoga Campaign (POW) Northern New York Campaign
Other work	Founder of Prescott

Edward Jessup (December 24, 1735 – February 3, 1816), together with his brother Ebenezer Jessup (July 1739 – 1818), was a large landowner in present-day New York State before the American Revolution, and later a soldier and political figure in Upper Canada, now the present-day Canadian province of Ontario, Canada.