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J'ôssup. Among the provincial corps organized early in the war were 

 those of Peters, Je&sup, and McAlpine. In 1781, after the failure of 

 the Burgoyne expedition, the provincials were reorganized and the 

 corps known as the Loyal Kangers was formed. Major Edward Jessup 

 was given the command. The list of caiptaims was as follows : Ebonezer 

 Jessnp, John Peters, Justus Sherwood, Jonathan Jones, William 

 Fraser, John Jones, Peter Drummond, John W. Meyers and Thomas 

 Fraser. The lieutenants were Guisbert Sharp, Henry Simmond, David 

 Jones, James Parrott, Alexander Campbell, David McPall, John Dul- 

 mage, G-ershom French, Grideon Adams, John Ritter, James Robins, 

 Edward Jessup; ensigns, John Dusenburg, John Peters, Elijah Bol- 

 ton, Thomas Sherwood, Thomas j\Iann. Harmonius Best, William Law- 

 son, Conrad Best; adjutant, Matthew Thompson; quarter-master, John 

 Ferguson; surgeon, George Smith, and surgeon's mate, Solomon Jones. 

 A few of these settled in the Bay of Quinte district, most of them in 

 Grenville. Four of the above became members of the legislature. The 

 list is an important one, containing as it does the progenitors of a large 

 number of the most important families of the two sections. 



Major Edward Jessup settled on lands in the 1st concession of 

 Augusta, and on his property tthe town of Prescott was begun. His 

 son, Lieuft. Edward Jessup, of the Loyal Rangers, was bom at Albany 

 and settled beside his father at what is now Prescott. It was the 

 younger Edward who was elected as member for Grenville in the second 

 legislature. In 1800, on his retirement from this position, he was 

 ap)P|ointed clerk of the peace for Johnstown district. In 1809, he 

 became lieut. -colonel of the First Regiment of Leeds militia. He 

 died at Prescott in 1815. His father died at the same place, February, 

 1816. 



Edward Jessup, sr., has the distinction of being one of the persons 

 mentioned in the New York Confiscation i^Aot passed 22nd October, 

 1799, "An Act for the Forfeiture and Sale of the Estates of Persons 

 who have adhered to the enemies of this State, etc'^ 



In the list appear the following : " Robert Leake, Edward Jessup 

 and Ebenezer Jessup, now or late of the said county (Albany), gen- 

 tlemen.^' 



Robert Leake was major of Sir John Johnson^s 2nd Battalion, and 

 Edward Jessup was organizer and commander of Jessup's Corps and the 

 Loyal Rangers. 



Leeds and Frontenac. — In the • first legislature Epbraim Jones had 

 been member for Grenville. In the second House appears Dr. Solomon 

 Jones, a member of another family, as representative for Leeds and 

 Frontenac. Solomon had been surgeon's mate in Jessup's Loyal Rang- 

 ers. Be was born in Connecticut, and, after studying for his profession 



