-Captain John Seaman was born in about 1609 in England. Hew came on board the John Winthrop Fleet to New England in 1630. From Watertown he moved to Wethersfield, Connecticut to avoid tax.  He was one of the original settlers of Stamford, Connecticut in 1641. In 1646 he is recorded with his brother Caleb in New Haven, Connecticut. He was made Captain and given command of one of the companies in the Pequot War, his father-in-law was lieutenant in his company. In 1647 he was one of the sixty-two signers of the Hempstead compact of land, to which he relocated that year. He, along with William Washburne, were Representatives at a Provincial Convention called by Governor Stuyvesant of New Netherlands on 11 December 1653. He and Richard Gildersleeve were nominated by Governor Stuyvesant on 21 December 1653. 
 
His daughter Elizabeth Seaman married Colonel John Jackson. In the next generation their daughter Martha Jackson married Peter Titus.