. Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography : illustrated . ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY. a U^WS^ si^/ ?-^. c ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY WAYNE, Gen. Anthony, Distinguished Soldier. General Anthony Wayne was born inEastown, Chester county, Pennsylvania,January i, 1745, the only son of IsaacWayne, of English-Irish ancestry. He attended the Philadelphia Academy,became a land surveyor, and upon therecommendation of Benjamin Franklinwas employed by a land company inNova Scotia. In 1769 he was married,and became a farmer and surveyor inChester county. He was a member ofthe Provincial Convention of 1774; as
. Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography : illustrated . ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY. a U^WS^ si^/ ?-^. c ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY WAYNE, Gen. Anthony, Distinguished Soldier. General Anthony Wayne was born inEastown, Chester county, Pennsylvania,January i, 1745, the only son of IsaacWayne, of English-Irish ancestry. He attended the Philadelphia Academy,became a land surveyor, and upon therecommendation of Benjamin Franklinwas employed by a land company inNova Scotia. In 1769 he was married,and became a farmer and surveyor inChester county. He was a member ofthe Provincial Convention of 1774; as-sembled to devise a means of settlementof the difficulties between England andthe colonies; and of the PennsylvaniaConvention of the same year; was a dele-gate to the Colonial Legislature, 1774-75,and a member of the Committee ofSafety in 1775. On the outbreak of the RevolutionaryWar he recruited among his neighborsa company which was enlarged intothe Fourth Battalion of PennsylvaniaTroops, was elected its colonel, Jan-uary 3, 1776, and was assigned to Gen-eral John Thomas brig
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