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WEARE, Meshech, jurist, born in Hampton, New Hampshire, 16 June, 1713; died in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, 15 January, 1786. He was graduated at Harvard in 1735, admitted to the bar, and practised law, also sitting in the legislature for several years, and serving as speaker in 1752. In 1754 he was a commissioner to the colonial congress at Albany, and he was afterward a justice of the supreme court, and in 1777 became chief justice. He was also a member of the executive council, and chairman of the committee of safety at the outset of the Revolution. He was elected president of the state in 1776, and was annually re-elected during the war, and in 1784 under the new constitution. He was made fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences in 1782. During the Revolution he rendered great services in raising and equipping the forces that were sent to the northern frontier of New Hampshire under General John Stark to oppose the progress of General John Burgoyne.
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