Joseph Weare

[1] Weare's hostility to the Native Americans (whom he "pursued at every opportunity with unrelenting hate")[2] began when he learned that they killed his maternal grandfather, Joseph Felt, in 1722.

[4] They had one known child, Nathaniel, born that December, who was named for Joseph's paternal grandfather.

He asked the Indians to pull on each side of the log as he drove his axe into the wedge.

With three of them on each side of the log, Weare drove his axe into the wedge, causing it to close on the Indians' hands, rendering them defenseless.

"[5] Weare died, while in Boston, in 1774, likely during the early stages of King George's War.