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|Person=John Seed
|First name=John
|Last name=Seed
|Occupation=Haberdasher
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Signature
|Has opening text=John Seede
|Has signoff text=Jo: Seed
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image:  }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res parish=Saint Mary Woolchurch
|Res town=London
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1602
|Marriage year=1626
|Probate date=April 13, 1659
|First deposition age=53
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.197v Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Mar 13 1655
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
|Type of ship=N/A
|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
}}
==Biographical synthesis==
John Seed (alt. Seede) (b. ca. 1602; m. 1626, Judith Needeham; d. ?1659). Haberdasher.

Married Judith Needeham of the parish of Saint Christopher's on December 7th 1626 when resident in the parish of Saint Mary Woolchurch.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/parishregisterso07stmi#page/24/mode/2up Joseph L. Chester (ed.), The parish registers of St. Michael, Cornhill, London : containing the marriages, baptisms, and burials from 1546 to 1754 (London, 1882), p.25]</ref> 

Resident in 1655 in the parish of Saint Mary Woolchurch.

Will of a John Seed, haberdasher of London, proved April 13th 1659.<ref>PROB 11/289/510 Will of John Seed, Haberdasher of London 13 April 1659</ref>

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Fifty-three old John Seed deposed on March 13th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.197v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.197v Annotate]]</ref>

==Comment on sources==
'''1626'''

"1626. Dec. 7 John Seede, of St Mary Wolchurche par., & Judeth Needeham, of St Christopher's par. ; by lie."<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/parishregisterso07stmi#page/24/mode/2up Joseph L. Chester (ed.), The parish registers of St. Michael, Cornhill, London : containing the marriages, baptisms, and burials from 1546 to 1754 (London, 1882), p.25]</ref>

'''1659'''

PROB 11/289/510 Will of John Seed, Haberdasher of London 13 April 1659

'''1675'''

PROB 11/347/427 Will of John Seed, Haberdasher of London 20 April 1675

'''Undated'''

"TWYFORD, Robert

Co Co Cheap 1677-82 "Poultry division of Cheap", 1661, St Mildred Poultry, ChW, 1670, 1681 (1) HAB, appr, 1645, to '''John Seede''', fr, 1655 (2) d sp, bur ? St Mildred Poultry (3) Will PCC 141 Cottle pr, 8 Nov 1682 f Henry Twyford of Wilsden, Middx, yeo, mar Frances (4) Oilman (5) Tory ("good", 1682) (5)

¶(1) CRO, MS 40/3, GHL, MS 10116, Box 3, file 7, will (2) Will, HAB, Binding Bk, 18 Jul 1645, Fr Index, 5 Oct 1655 (3) Will (4) HAB, Binding Bk, 18 Jul 1645, will (5) SP/29/418/199"<ref>J R Woodhead, 'Talbot - Tyler', in The Rulers of London 1660-1689 A Biographical Record of the Aldermen and Common Councilment of the City of London (London, 1966), pp. 159-166. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-rulers/1660-89/pp159-166, accessed 14 October 2016</ref<