Isaac Wayne

Isaac Wayne (1699 – November 1774) was a member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly representing Chester County from 1757 to 1763. He served as captain in the Provincial Forces of Pennsylvania during the French and Indian War from 1755 to 1758. As a civilian he operated a tannery. He is the father of American Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne and grandfather of United States Congressman Isaac Wayne.

Biography Isaac Wayne was born in County Wicklow, Ireland in 1699 as the ninth child Anthony Wayne and family emigrated to the Province of Pennsylvania in British America and settled on a parcel of land in Easttown Township, Pennsylvania. Isaac stayed in England to finish his education and joined the family two years later.

Isaac was 40 years old when his parents deeded their estate to him under the condition that he was to pay an annuity to his parents for the remainder of their lives.

He built up the largest tannery in Pennsylvania, grew grain, and feed-crops. for the Provincial Forces of Pennsylvania from 1755 to 1756.

He served as the representative for Chester County in the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly from 1757 to 1763.

At the age of forty, he married Elizabeth Iddings and together they had four children:

Anthony Wayne, a major general during the American Revolution Hannah, who married Samuel Van Leer, a Captain during the American Revolution, owner of a large Iron business and nearby historical homes. Ann, who married Capt. William Hayman Margaret, who married Col. Holstein

Isaac Wayne Tombstone in St. David's Episcopal Church Cemetery Wayne died in November 1774 at Easttown Township, Pennsylvania and was interred in the graveyard of St. David's Episcopal Church in Radnor, Pennsylvania.