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- "Captain Anthony Wayne, grandfather of the distinguished patriot general of the same name as well as of Hannah (Wayne) Van Leer, was born in 1666, in one of the northern counties of England, and in early manhood emigrated to county Wicklow, Ireland, where he resided until his emigration to Pennsylvania in 1722. He was an officer under William, Prince of Orange, and commanded a company of dragoons at the battle of Boyne in 1690. He married, in Ireland, Hannah Faulkner, who with his children, Francis, Gabriel, William, Humphrey, Jacob, William, John, Sarah and Mary, accompanied him to Pennsylvania. The family settled in Easttown township, Chester county, where they were joined by Isaac Wayne in 1724, he having followed his parents to Pennsylvania. Anthony Wayne purchased by deed dated May 11, 1724, three hundred and eighty acres in Easttown, on which he lived until his death on December 2, 1739, at the age of seventy-three years. He was buried at St. David's Church, Radnor." [1]
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