Editing John Sellers (surveyor) (section)

==Career==
===Surveying career===
Sellers worked as a weaver.<ref name="pa"/> He was appointed surveyor by the governor to run a line from Schuylkill to Lancaster to prepare for the [[Strasburg Road]]. He was appointed as road commissioner of the Strasburg Road. He was appointed as a surveying engineer of the [[Union Canal (Pennsylvania)|Union Canal]]. He was also involved in the Schuylkill-Susquehanna canal study of 1783 and the boundary commission for the newly created [[Delaware County, Pennsylvania|Delaware County]] in 1789.<ref name="pa"/><ref name="paroots">{{cite web|url=http://www.pa-roots.com/index.php/delaware-county/86-history-of-delaware-county-pennsylvania/757-historyofdelawarecountychapter10|title=History of Delaware County Pennsylvania - Chapter 10 - PA-Roots|first=Nathan|last=Zipfel|website=Pa-roots.com|accessdate=11 November 2018}}</ref>

===American Philosophical Society===
Sellers was one of the original members of the [[American Philosophical Society]]. He joined the organization in 1768. Sellers and [[David Rittenhouse]] and others were members of the society's committee that observed the [[Transit of Venus]] in 1769 and reported their observations for the benefit of science.<ref name="pa"/><ref name="paroots"/>

===Political career===
Sellers was a [[Federalist Party|Federalist]]. He was a member of the [[Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly]] (later the [[Pennsylvania House of Representatives]]), representing [[Chester County, Pennsylvania|Chester County]], from 1767 to 1771.<ref name="portrait"/><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/chestercountyits00thoms/page/436/mode/2up |title=Chester County and Its People |editor-last=Thomson |editor-first=W. W. |year=1898 |publisher=The Union History Company |page=436 |via=[[Archive.org]] |access-date=2023-11-25}}{{Open access}}</ref> He was appointed one of the Boston Port Bill Committee and was a deputy in the first Provincial Conference of Representatives at Philadelphia on July 14, 1774. These activities on behalf of the Revolution and particularly Sellers' role in signing the Continental currency led to his disownment by the Society of Friends.

He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1789, representing [[Delaware County, Pennsylvania|Delaware]]. He served in the first session of the [[Pennsylvania Senate]]. He represented Delaware and [[Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]] counties and Philadelphia from 1790 to 1794.<ref name="pa"/><ref name="portrait"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.duq.edu/academics/gumberg-library/pa-constitution/texts-of-the-constitution/1790 |title=Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - 1790 &#124; Duquesne University |access-date=2018-06-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180428071202/http://www.duq.edu/academics/gumberg-library/pa-constitution/texts-of-the-constitution/1790 |archive-date=2018-04-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=5440&body=S|title=John Sellers|first=Legislativate Data Processing|last=Center|website=The official website for the Pennsylvania General Assembly.|accessdate=11 November 2018}}</ref> He was appointed by Governor [[Thomas Mifflin]] as associate judge of the Delaware County Court, but declined the appointment.<ref name="pa"/>