David Chambers Claypoole (1757–1849)
David Chambers Claypoole was born in Philadelphia on 14 June 1757. In the 1770s he apprenticed under John Dunlap (1747–1812), printer of the Pennsylvania Packet and printer to the Continental Congress. After serving as a lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, Claypoole partnered with Dunlap on the Packet. In 1787, the two men printed the first sixty printed folio pamphlets of the new U.S. Constitution. Thereafter Claypoole published the Mail, Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser, and Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser.
Rebecca Irwin Graff, Genealogy of the Claypoole Family of Philadelphia, 1588–1893 (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1893), 82–87.
John James Barralet and Henry A. Boorse, "Barralet’s 'The Dunlap House, 1807,' and Its Associations," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 99, Number 2 (April 1975), 131–55.
Clyde S. Edwards, "American Eighteenth-Century Newspapers," Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, Volume 8, Number 1 (November 1950), 40–43.
Jeffrey J. Malanson, " 'If I Had It in His Hand-Writing I Would Burn It': Federalists and the Authorship Controversy over George Washington’s Farewell Address, 1808–1859," Journal of the Early Republic, Volume 34, Number 2 (Summer 2014), 219–42.
"GW’s Farewell Address: Editorial Note," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-20-02-0440-0001. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 20, 1 April–21 September 1796, ed. David R. Hoth and William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, pp. 697–702.]
Lieut David Chambers Claypoole at Find a Grave.