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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaWAYNE, Anthony
(1745—1796)
WAYNE, Anthony, (father of Isaac Wayne), a Representative from Georgia; born in East Town, Chester County, Pa., January 1, 1745; attended Philadelphia Academy; became a land surveyor and was employed for a time in Nova Scotia; returned to Chester County, Pa.; member of the provincial house of representatives in 1774 and 1775; served in the Revolutionary Army as colonel of the Fourth Regiment of Pennsylvania troops; commissioned as brigadier general February 21, 1777; brevetted major general October 10, 1783; elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1784; moved to Georgia and settled upon a tract of land granted him by that State for his military service; delegate to the State convention which ratified the Constitution of the United States in 1788; presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Second Congress and served from March 4, 1791, to March 21, 1792, when the seat was declared vacant; declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1792; again entered the service of the United States Army, as major general and General in Chief of the Army; concluded a treaty August 3, 1795, with the Indians northwest of the Ohio River; died in Presque Isle (now Erie), Pa., December 15, 1796; remains were moved in 1809 and interred in St. David’s Episcopal Church Cemetery, Radnor, Pa.
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Brice, Wallace A. History of Fort Wayne, from the earliest known accounts of this point, to the present period : embracing an extended view of the aboriginal tribes of the Northwest, including, more especially, the Miamies ... with a sketch of the life of General Anthony Wayne; including also a lengthy biography of the late Hon. Samuel Hanna together with short sketches of the early pioneer settlers of Fort Wayne; also an account of the manufacturing, mercantile, and railroad interests of Fort Wayne and vicinity
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Wayne, Anthony. Anthony Wayne, a Name in Arms: Soldier, Diplomat, Defender of Expansion Westward of a Nation; the Wayne-Knox-Pickering-McHenry Correspondence, Transcribed and Edited by Richard C. Knopf
. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, [1975].
———. Letter to General Anthony Wayne
. [Philadelphia: N.p., 1895].
———. Two letters, I: Anthony Wayne and lake George, letter from General Anthony Wayne to General Schuyler, Ticonderoga, March 23, 1777; II: Washington’s announcement of Arnold’s treason, letter from George Washington to the Judge Advocate General, September 26, 1780
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Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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