[margin: VARIES] [margin: 1796? 1766?] Dec. of John Schureman of New Rochelle: I was born at New Rochelle in 1796. The night before the battle of White Plains (I think) the British army or part of it, passed my father's house on the cross road from North River to Scarsdale by the Quakers Meeting House. It was a bright, moonlight night and we had not gone to bed. In the Revolutionary war the road …