Background
Chapman, John was born on October 18, 1740 in Wrightstown Township, Buckinghamshire County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Chapman, John was born on October 18, 1740 in Wrightstown Township, Buckinghamshire County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Studied medicine as he called himself a practitioner of physic.
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 Buckinghamshire County the same year. He moved to Upper Makefield Township, Pennsylvania, prior to 1776. Chapman was elected as a Federalist to the Fifth Congress.
He died in Upper Makefield in 1800.
Interment in the Friends’ Burying Ground in Wrightstown Township, Pennsylvania.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania General Assembly from 1787 to 1796.