John Bartram

John Bartram (1650 – 12 December 1697) was an English Quaker politician who was a member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly from Chester County in 1689. He was born in England and emigrated to the Province of Pennsylvania, where he settled and owned many acres of land in what is now Delaware County, Pennsylvania. He was the grandfather of the botanist.

Biography John Bartram, son of Richard Bartram, was married in Derbyshire, England, and lived in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, where he and his wife had one daughter and three sons. The family removed to the Province of Pennsylvania in 1682 or 1683 with his wife and four children. On 8 July 1684 his daughter Elizabeth was born. Bartram settled on the western side of Darby Creek, just above the village of Darby. The three hundred acres of land were surveyed to him on 30 August 1685.

On 19 August 1688, it was agreed that the Darby "Meeting House be lined within" and on 27 October 1688, "Thomas Hood and John Bartram ordered to gather the money for ye Glase and Speake for it". Bartram was a member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly from Chester County in 1689. He died on 12 December 1697.