Jacobus Schureman was born about 1695. He came to America from Holland in 1719. He married, about 1720, Antje Jans Terhune (b.aft.1692-d.aft.1757) who was the daughter of Jan Alberts Terhuen (of Flatbush) and Margritie Van Sicklen. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volumes 23-24, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society., 1892 - New York (State) [1] The Schuremans of New Jersey by Richard Wykoop, page 201-211 [2] [3] Jacobus Schureman and Antje Terhune had three children: John, Jacoba or Jamesina, commonly known as " Coba," and Ferdinand. T. [1] [4] [5]

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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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