Robert Troup

Robert Troup (1757 – January 14, 1832) was a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New York. He participated in the Battles of Saratoga and was present at the surrender of British General John Burgoyne.

Early life and education Troup was born in 1757, in Elizabethtown, in the Province of New Jersey in colonial-era British America. He graduated from King's College, later renamed Columbia University, in 1774, and read law,