Joseph Weare

Joseph Weare (March 9, 1737 – 1774) was an 18th-century fighter of Native Americans. He was from North Yarmouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay, and was nicknamed the Scout.

Life and career

Weare was born to Captain Peter Weare (1695–1743) and Sarah Felt (1701–1768). His father drowned while attempting to cross the Royal River in North Yarmouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay, when Joseph was six years old; his mother lived for a further twenty-five years.

Weare's hostility to the Native Americans (whom he "pursued at every opportunity with unrelenting hate") began when he learned that they killed his maternal grandfather, Joseph Felt, in 1722.

He married Mary Noyes on March 20, 1760. They had one known child, Nathaniel, born that December, who was named for Joseph's paternal grandfather.

Death Weare died, while in Boston, in 1774, likely during the early stages of King George's War. He was 36 or 37. He was buried in the Pioneer Cemetery (also known as the Indian Fighters' Cemetery) in today's Yarmouth, Maine. His wife later remarried, to Humphrey Merrill of Falmouth.