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Excerpt from Schureman Genealogy
Tory, pitying their suffering condition, furnished them with money, with which they bought food. They also bribed the guard to give them the privilege of the yard and on one night they supplied the guard with liquor containing laudanum, and then dug their way through the wall, and escaped to what was then the upper part of the city, took a small boat, which they paddled with one oar to Powles Hook, and thence they went to the Patriot Army at Morristown. At another time, Lieu. Col. Simcoe, at the head Of the Queen's Rangers, made a daring foray, from Amboy, by way of Somerville, to Mill stone. On his return, and about two miles from New Brunswick, he was intercepted by Capt. Guest his horse was shot and fell upon him, wounding him severely, and a militia-man was about to pierce him with a bayonet, when Schureman knocked up the musket, and took Sim coe prisoner. Schureman was 2nd Lieu. Capt. Taylor's company, Col. Neilson's battalion, of Minute Men, Jan. 10, 1776. He is alsorecorded as 2nd Lieu. Of Middlesex. His local knowledge and influence, made him more useful for irregular, than for stated military service.
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