James Schureman (February 12, 1756 – January 22, 1824) was an American merchant and statesman from New Brunswick, New Jersey.

James was born in New Brunswick in the Province of New Jersey and attended Queen's College (now Rutgers University), graduating in 1775.

[1] When he graduated he raised a volunteer company in New Brunswick and led it as captain in the Middlesex County militia.

He was held as a prisoner of war until early in the spring of 1777 when he escaped to rejoin the Continental Army at Morristown.

When Schureman died in 1824 at New Brunswick, he was buried in the churchyard of the First Dutch Reformed Church there.