After reaching England, Scurry took up many jobs first as a superintendent of a wholesale grocer, and then set up his own grocery Business. In 1800, he married once more and had 8 children, of which only one son and one daughter survived. He moved on from his grocery Business to join a colliery, and then as a steward for a merchant ship, and then moved back to London in 1816 to work for a coal wharf. His final job was to superintendent a mine, but due to cold weather, he developed severe cold and infection, and died in 1822, at the age of 57. He was buried in Exeter on December 14, 1822.