John Chapman (October 18, 1740January 27, 1800) was a member of the

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from

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. Chapman was born in Wrightstown Township in the

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. He was commissioned justice of the peace February 25, 1779, and was one of the justices commissioned judge of the court of common pleas of Bucks County the same year. He moved to

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, prior to 1776. He was a member of the

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from 1787 to 1796. He was a member of the revived

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, elected in 1768.Bell, Whitfield J., and Charles Greifenstein, Jr. Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society. 3 vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997, I: 424-26, III:337. Chapman was elected as a

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to the Fifth Congress. He died in Upper Makefield Township in 1800. Interment in the Friends’ Burying Ground in Wrightstown Township.

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