FAMILY

The Wayne Line

From: Families of Pennsylvania, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs
by Wilfred Jordan
Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., New York, New York
1948

The following is a brief history of the Wayne family line:

(I) Captain Anthony Wayne was born in Derbyshire, near the border line of Yorkshire, England, in 1666, and at an early age adopted the profession of arms. While a lad, he served under John Churchill, in Holland, and later under the great Duke of Marlborough, with his friend, John Hunter. While in the army of William of Orange, he was in command of a troop of horse at the Battle of the Boyne, in 1690, where he was still associated with John Hunter. At the conclusion of the war, both settled as graziers in the County of Wicklow, Ireland, on land conferred upon them by William. Captain Wayne emigrated to America with his family in 1723, landing at Boston, Massachusetts, and from there made his way to Chester County, Pennsylvania, where his friend, John Hunter, had settled in 1722. On May 11, 1729, he purchased three hundred and eighty-six acres of land in Easttown township from Thomas Edwards, being named in the deed, "Anthony Wayne, Gentleman." On May 31, 1729, he conveyed forty acres of this land to his son, Francis Wayne, and added about the same amount by purchase in 1735. On February 20, 1738-39, he conveyed the whole plantation to his son, Isaac. Anthony Wayne died in Easttown township, Pennsylvania, December 2, 1739, and was buried in Radnor township, at St. David’s Church, of which he had been a vestryman and pew-holder. Captain Anthony Wayne married, at Rathdrum (southwest of Wicklow), County Wicklow, Ireland, about 1690, to Hannah Faulkner, of Dutch descent.

Children:
1) Francis, born in Ireland, about 1691, died in Chester County, Pennsylvania, January 31, 1763; married Elizabeth Jackson, and had issue.
2) Gabriel, born in Ireland about 1694.
3) Isaac, of whom further.
4) Humphrey, born in 1701, married Priscilla Iddings.
5) Jacob, married Elizabeth.
6) William, born in 1708, died April 22, 1726.
7) John, executor of his father’s will in 1739.
8) Sarah, married James Norton.
9) Anne, Married Samuel McCue.
10) Mary.

II) Captain Isaac Wayne, third son of Captain Anthony Wayne, who was born in Ireland in 1699, acquired the home plantation from his father and spent his life there, naming the estate "Waynesborough." He was a captain in the provincial forces during the Indian troubles of 1755, raising a company for the defense of the frontier after Braddock’s defeat. He was stationed at De Puy’s, now Monroe County, until January, 1756, when he was ordered to Nazareth, Northampton County. He recruited another company when trouble was renewed in 1757-58, and served on the frontier. He was elected to the Colonial Assembly in 1757, and was annually reelected thereafter until 1764. Captain Isaac Wayne was a prominent member of the vestry of St. David’s Church, and accumulated a large estate. He greatly improved the mansion at Waynesborough, which descended, at his death in 1774, to his eldest surviving son, General Anthony Wayne.

Captain Isaac Wayne married, in 1738, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard and Margaret (Phillips) Iddings, of Chester County. She lived many years after his death, dying at "Waynesborough" in May, 1793, at the age of eighty-four years.

Children:
1) William, died in infancy.
2) Anthony, general in the Revolutionary War, born January 1, 1745, died December 15, 1796; married, March 25, 1766, Mary Penrose.
3) Hannah, married Samuel Van Leer. *SEE BELOW*
4) Anne, of whom further.

(III) Anne Wayne, daughter of Captain Isaac and Elizabeth (Iddings) Wayne, was born in 1751, and died June 9, 1807. She married Captain William Hayman of the United States Navy, son of William Hayman, Surveyor General of Exeter, England.

Child:
1) Elizabeth Wayne Hayman, of whom further.

(IV) Elizabeth Wayne Hayman, daughter of Captain William and Anne (Wayne) Hayman, married, November 5, 1801, George Washington Holstein.

(V) George Washington Holstein, son of Samuel and Rachel (Moore) Holstein, was born April 10, 1778, and died March 10, 1841.

Child:
1) Emily Wilson, of whom further.

(VI) Emily Wilson Holstein, daughter of George Washington and Elizabeth Wayne (Hayman) Holstein, married General William Brooke Thomas. She was living in 1886, when she and her husband celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary.

From: Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania
by John W. Jordan, LL.D.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Volume III
The Lewis Publishing Company, New York, New York
1911

* Anthony Wayne’s sister Hannah married Captain Samuel Van Leer and they had four daughters and two sons, Van Leer was a descendant of William Mintzer Van Leer.
The Van Leer family, originally spelled Von Lohr, is an ancient heraldic family of Germany, residing in the seventeenth century in or near the town of Isenberg in the Electorate of Hesse, and, as shown by a certificate granted to John George Von Lohr, the first of the family to emigrate to America, (the original of which is in the possession of George H. Earle, Jr., of Philadelphia, a lineal descent) were entitled to bear the following coat-of-arms, viz.: "Argent, a chevron azure between three rose bushes blooming, ppr." with Crest, "A man holding a Lance all ppr."

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