Weare is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.

It was granted to veterans of the Canadian wars in 1735 by Governor Jonathan Belcher, who named it "Beverly-Canada" after their hometown, Beverly, Massachusetts.

But the charter was ruled invalid because of a prior claim by the Masonian proprietors, who granted 6 square miles (16 km2) as "Hale's Town" to Ichabod Robie in 1749.

[4] In 1834, Moses Cartland founded Clinton Grove Academy, the first Quaker seminary in the state.

A cousin of John Greenleaf Whittier, Cartland named the village where the school was located "Clinton Grove", in honor of DeWitt Clinton, chief sponsor of the Erie Canal.

The complex, which included a classroom building, boarding house, barn and sheds, burned in 1872.

The flood washed away everything in its path, leaving parts of Weare devastated.

The dam required the village of East Weare to be permanently abandoned, and formed Everett Lake.

The three highest summits in Weare form a cluster near the center of town.