Background
Isaac Wayne was born in County Wicklow, Ireland in 1699 to Captain Anthony Wayne, veteran of the Battle of the Boyne.
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Career
lieutenant is speculated that Hannah was the daughter of one of the better-rewarded Dutch officers. They settled on a 1,600-acre (65 km2) estate in Easttown, Chester County, in what became the town of Paoli in 1724. Their stone home called Waynesborough is now a designated historical site and open for public tours.
Isaac, the ninth child, stayed in England to finish his education and joined the family two years later.
He built up the largest tannery in Pennsylvania, grew grain, and feed-crops. His militia commission enabled him to go out when the Indians rose or threatened, as he did during the French and Indian War between 1755-1758.
When he was reaching forty, he took as his bride Elizabeth Iddings of Philadelphia who was probably 10 years younger. Isaac and Elizabeth Iddings Wayne had four children:
Anthony Wayne, a Major General during the American Revolution
Hannah, who married Samuel Vanleer
Ann, who married Captain
William Hayman
Margaret, who married Colonel
Holstein
Isaac died in 1774 and is buried in the Saint David churchyard in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
