Benito, Frederick, or John Weaver

Other histories have a different identification: (his son Powell was the famous frontoersman):
"Weaver was born Powell Weaver in White County, Tennessee, the son of a white German father, supposedly Frederick Weaver or John Weaver of Weaverville, North Carolina, and a Cherokee mother. As a young man he worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company in Canada. In 1830 he traveled to the Rocky Mountains with a group of nearly 50 other men on a trapping expedition. The trip took him to Taos, New Mexico, which he adopted as a base for his trapping and trading. It was among the people of Taos that his given name Powell was changed to the more-familiar to Spanish speakers Paulino, which in turn was changed to Pauline by English speakers. In 1831 he traveled from Taos to California, going through Arizona for the first time."

In August 1832, Weaver was baptized into the Catholic faith, and the following month he married Maria Dolores Martin in Taos.[1] They had a son and two daughters. He later married a Native American woman in Arizona.[1]