Maria Weston Chapman (July 25, 1806 – July 12, 1885)"Maria Weston Chapman." Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Biography In Context. Web. February 28, 2013. was an American abolitionist. She was elected to the executive committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1839 and from 1839 until 1842, she served as editor of the anti-slavery journal The Non-Resistant.