John Shedde

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• Background Information. ⁶¹⁹
John Shedd was likely born around 1480 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. His name is found in the Chawreth Lay Subsidies roll for 1523 & 1524. He was taxed 20s. on goods rated at 20 pounds. [Lay Subsidies, Essex, 108-161 & 108-202.] He paid the highest tax in the parish, with the exception of the lords of two manors. This shows that beside the two lords, he was the wealthiest person of the parish. He was taxed in goods rather than land which indicates that he was in some kind of business rather than engaging in farming. A few years later he moved to the adjoining parish of Debden in Uttlesford Hundred, Essex, England, where he appears as "John Shede, able man," on the Muster Roll of 27 Henry VIII (1535) [Exchequer Accounts, Kings Remembrancer, 549-8, Records Office, London.] John Shedd or Shede died in 1542, at the age of about sixty years old.

The will of John Shedde of Debden, Essex, England, dated "the daie of Saint Roke (Rochus) the Confessor, that is the morn next after the Feast of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1541," (16 Aug 1541):

To the reparation of the church of Debden 6s. 8d. To the reparation of the King's highway between Debden and Walden against Perton Field otherwise called Palerm's Field, 40s. To the poor of Debden, Thaxted and Newport, 6s. 8d. each, and to the poor of Henham, 3s. 4d. The residue of all my goods, movable and immovable, household effects, cattle, jewelry and money, after my debts are paid, will fulfilled and funeral done, I give to my wife Joane as long as she remain my widow, and at her marriage or death, reversion to my sons and daughters then living. I appoint as executors my sons Thomas Shedde and John Shedde, to each of whom I bequeath 6s. 8d. Witnesses, Henry Hammond of Thaxted and Sir Thomas Pyrry, vicar of Broxted. Proved by the executors 18 Dec 1542 [Archdeaconry of Clochester, somerset House, London, Register "Sargeant," fol. 212]

John married Joane. She appears at Debden in Uttlesford Hundred, Essex, England in the subsidy of 35 Henry VIII (1543) as Joane Shedd, widow, taxed 8d. [Lay Subsidy, Essex, 109-281, Records Office, London]

Children:
• Thomas, b. abt 1508
• A daughter, b. abt 1510
• A daughter, b. abt 1512
• John, b. abt 1515, bur. 22 Oct 1575, at Debden
• Robert, b. abt 1518
• Richard, b. abt 1520; d. abt 1561

~Daniel Shed genealogy, pp. 10 - 12