Robert Wear, Jr

A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA. DAR Ancestor # A203851

The Scotch-Irish Weir family settled in New England, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina ... researching Nutfield (Londonderry, N.H.) where a Robert Weir settled in 1719 from Ulster... established a Presbyterian Church there.

About 1730 there was significant controversy in the church and in Nutfield. Mass.

Robert Wear was presumably the son of Robert and Martha Wear of the Nutfield, New Hampshire Presbyterian colony (this was a remnant of a pilgrimage of Presbyterians under Rev. James MacGregor during Queen Ann's War to escape religious persecution--they originally were supposed to settle in Massachusetts in 1718, but because of a severe winter and a lack of welcome from the Puritans, half of the original congregation went to Maine in 1719 and the other half went to Nutfield [renamed Londonderry]).

Although there has never been proof that Robert (father of Col. Samuel Wear) was the son of the Robert and Martha Wear, it had been shown that many of the New Hampshire Presbyterians later relocated to Bucks Co., PA about 1730 and since it was known that John Wear (son of Robert and Rebecca Carrell) was born in Bucks Co., PA, many genealogists have assumed that there was a connection so it has more or less become dogma.
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Robert Weir/Wear Jr (c.1715 Ulster, Ireland - Aft 1789 Sevier Co, TN) of Warrington, and descendants later migrated to Kentucky, then AL, ...