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Wayne, Anthony

Born
1/1/1745
Birthplace
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
Titles and Honors
Member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly from Chester

Recieved medal from Congress for taking over 500 British soldiers.

Member of the Pennsylvania General Assmbly from Chester County, 1784-85

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia , 2nd Congress, 1791-92

Major General in Command of the U.S. Legion, 1791
Notes
53.413.1 Transferred to Burton Historical Collection
Occupation
Frame resolution of protest against British, 1774

Colonial of a Chester County Regiment and was sent with the Pennsylvania brigade to reinforce Canadian expansion, 1776

Brigade General Continental Army, joined George Washington at Mooristown , New Jearsy, took command of Pennsylvania troops, 1777

Served in battles of Brandywine and Germantown, 1777

With George Washington at Valley forge, winter 1777-78

served in Battle of monmouth, 1778

Sent to oppose British, Loyalits and hostile Native Americans in Georgia, 1781

Negotiated treaties of submission with Creek and Cherokee Native Americans winter, 1782-83

Defeated the Native Americans at Fallen Timbers on Maumee River North what is now Toledo, Ohio
Father
Issac Wayne
Mother
Elizabeth Iddings
Spouse
Mary Penrose, m. 3/25/1766
Children
Issac
1 unnamed child
Nationality
American

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