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Jessup family collection [textual record]

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Date:

[ca. 1789-1846].

Reference:

R4083-0-8-E, MG25-G59

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

100992

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Jessup family collection
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Date(s):

[ca. 1789-1846].

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

0.1 cm of textual records (1 p.).

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of a pedigree of the Jessup family in the Heralds Office, London, certified a true copy, [30 September 1789], by the Windsor Herald and the York Herald. The document is a rough copy, with additions made by [Dr.] H[amilton] D[ibble] J[essup, prior to the death of his mother, Susannah Jessup (née Covell), in 1846]. It traces his descent from Edward Jessup (1663-1732) of Fairfield, Conn., U.S.A.

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Jessup (family)

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Jessup (family) : Dr. Hamilton Dibble Jessup (1806-post 1885) was the son of Lieutenant Edward Jessup (1766-1815) and grandson of Major Edward Jessup (1735-1816) of the Loyalist rangers known as "Jessup's Corps", who founded Prescott, Ont., in 1810. After studying medicine in Montreal, he practised as a physician for over 30 years in Prescott, where he was 10 times mayor, as well as Lieutenant-Colonel in the militia, and Collector of Customs from 1867 to 1885. He was M.P. for Grenville in 1844, and Warden of Leeds and Grenville County in 1857 and 1859.

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General note:

For a better copy of the pedigree, without Dr. Jessup's additions, and more information on the Jessup family, see Edward Jessup of West Farms, Westchester Co., New York, and His Descendants..., by the Rev. Henry Griswold Jesup (Cambridge: 1887), especially pages 203-270 and the two preceding unnumbered pages.
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Heraldry - Canada

Jessup family - Genealogy, 1663-1846
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Private

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MG25-G59
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