COLONEL EDWARD JESSUP
1735-1816

Born in Stamford, Connecticut, he forfeited 500,000 acres
near Albany, New York, by taking up arms for the King
on the outbreak of the American Revolution. He raised
the Loyal (Jessup’s) Rangers and served under
Burgoyne. This corps was disbanded at the end of the
war, its members settling in the present Leeds and
Grenville Counties, and on the Bay of Quinte. In
return for his services, Jessup received extensive
lands from the Crown. In 1810 a townsite was
surveyed on this grant which he named after Robert Prescott,
Governor-in-Chief of Canada, 1797-1807.

Erected by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board.