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John Schureman

Birthdate:February 27, 1729

Birthplace:Three Mile Run, Middlesex County, NJ

Death:July 06, 1795 (66)

New Brunswick, Middlesex County, NJ, United States

Place of Burial: New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States

Immediate Family:

Husband of Antje Reimer Schureman

Father of Sen. James Schureman (F-NJ) and Elizabeth Nevius

DAR: Ancestor #: A101170

https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/john-schureman-24-269d0p

Children

Elizabeth Schureman Nevius

1761 - 1831

James Schureman

1756 - 1824

John Schureman was the son of Jacobus Schureman (1695-1754) and Antje Jans Terhune

(aft.1692-aft.1757)

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John Schureman

M, #216364, b. 27 Feb 1728/29, d. 6 Jul 1795

John Schureman was born on 27-Feb-1728/29 at New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey. He was the son of Jacobus Schureman and Annetje Terhune. John married Antje de Remere; 2nd marriage Antje. John Schureman died on 6-Jul-1795 at New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, at age 66.

He was also known as Johannes Schureman.

Child of John Schureman and Antje de Remere

• Elizabeth Schureman+ b. 2 Aug 1761, d. 15 Sep 1831

John Schureman married Antje [Ann] (DeRemere) Stryker on February 22, 1750 in New Brunswick, Middlesex, New Jersey. Source Information: Ancestry.com. New Jersey, Marriage Records, 1683-1802 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: New Jersey State Archives. New Jersey, Published Archives Series, First Series. Trenton, New Jersey: John L Murphy Publishing Company.

He was a member of the Middlesex Committee of Correspondence, a member of the Provincial Congress and of the Committee of Safety.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schureman-13

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New Brunswick in history by Benedict, William H

New Brunswick, N.J., Published by The author 1925 https://archive.org/details/newbrunswickinhi00bene_0/page/347/mode/2up?q=Schureman https://archive.org/details/newbrunswickinhi00bene_0/page/348/mode/2up?q=Schureman

Page 347 SCHUREMAN FAMILY Jacobus Schuurman was b. in Holland after 1693; came to America in 1719 with Rev. Theodore J. Frelinghuysen as his accompanying schoolmaster, choir leader and reader. He set- tled with him at Three-Mile Run. Both m. sisters, Jacobus' wife being Antje, and Frelinghuysen's wife being Eve Terheun (Terhune), the two being daughters of Albert Terheun, 'of Flatbush, L. I. Jacobus had seven children: I. Anne, b. 1721; d. 1800; unm. 2. Jacoba, b. 1724; d. before 1760; m. Archibald Thomson. _ 3. Margaret, b. 1726; d. 1745; m. 1743, Petrus Vredenburgh. 4. John. (See below). 5. Ferdinand; m. Eleanor Voorhees. 6. Jacob (sup.) ; m. Maria Van Voorhees. 7. Albertines, b. 1735. John Schureman (4) was b. 1729; d. 1795; m., Feb., 1751, Antje (De Riemer) Stryker. He had a storehouse on the Raritan river at New Brunswick, at the foot of Dutch (now) Page 348 Schureman) St. He was most active in the Revolutionary War, being on the Middlesex Committee of Correspondence, a member of the Provincial Congress and of the Committee of Safety. He was also a Trustee of Queens College and its Treasurer from 1780 to 1790. -He had five children. Page 348 James Schureman, son of John, was b. 1756; d. 1824; m., 1778, Eleanor Williamson. He graduated from Queen's College in 1775 and served as Lieutenant and possibly as Captain in Col. John Neilson's Battalion of Minute Men. In 1777 he was captured by the British and confined near New Brunswick, and later in the "Sugar House Prison" in New York City, from which he escaped. On the Simcoe raid in 1779 it was Schureman in Neilson's 2nd Middlesex Regiment who took Simcoe prisoner. He was member of the N. J. Assembly for four terms and of the N. J. Senate three terms; was twice elected to Congress; then became, in 1799, U. S. Senator, and again served one term as Representative in Congress, 1813-'15. He was Mayor of New Brunswick in 1810 and again in 1821. He followed his father in the merchant business, foot of Schureman St., which was named for him. He also became Trustee and Treasurer of Queens College. He had 14 children. His son, William Williamson, who was b. 1799 and d. 1850, m. Anne Bennet, and lived on the Three-Mile Run farm owned by his father, grandfather and great-grandfather. His son, James, b. 1823 and d. 1901, m. Hannah Kocks (Cox) and lived on the same homestead. The latter had a son, Howard Bishop, b. in 1849.

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