Mary Penrose Wayne
(1748-1793)
BIRTH
1748
PLACE
NAME
Mary Penrose
DEATH
1793
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Bartholomew Penrose Jr.
(1708-1758)
HUSBAND
Anthony Wayne
(1745-1796)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Mary “Polly” Penrose Wayne married Anthony Wayne at Christ Church in Philadelphia in 1766. The daughter of Bartholomew and Mary Penrose, she settled at Waynesborough, Pennsylvania, where she managed the household and farm during her husband’s military service. Local church history credits her with preserving the property during British searches in 1777. She died in 1793 and was buried beside her sister Margaret at St. David’s; accounts differ on her birth year.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Mary Wayne’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Mary Wayne is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Mary Wayne died in 1793. Mary “Polly” Penrose Wayne married Anthony Wayne at Christ Church in Philadelphia in 1766. The daughter of Bartholomew and Mary Penrose, she settled at Waynesborough, Pennsylvania, where she managed the household and farm during her husband’s military service. Local church history credits her with preserving the property during British searches in 1777. She died in 1793 and was buried beside her sister Margaret at St. David’s; accounts differ on her birth year. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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