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Son of Clement Weaver, he was b. before 11 Dec 1625.
He came to New England with his parents and appears on a list of freemen at Portsmouth in 1655. (The earliest known list of freemen of the Colony was made in 1655. Clement Weaver and Clement Weaver, Jr., both appear in this list as belonging to Newport. This does not show when they were admitted.) He was a juryman in 1671, a member of the House of Deputies in 1678.
Clement Weaver and John Weaver were among the fifty persons to whom the township of East Greenwich was granted Oct. 31, 1677. The grant consisted of 5,000 acres and was to be laid out in parcels of 100 acres for each. The house lots of all (10 acres each) to be laid out together "near the sea." Before this the tract was known as "the Narragansett Country." There seems to be no reason for doubting that these two grantees were Sergeant Clement and his son John. His share was laid out March 1679-80.
He arrived with his parents circa 1630 to Boston, Massachusetts. The earliest known list of freemen of the Colony was made in 1655. Clement Weaver and Clement Weaver, Jr., both appear in this list as belonging to Newport. This does not show when they were admitted.
He made his will on 24 Nov 1680. Left to Thomas, son of his son John some land in the "Narragansett Country" and called by the name "Wesquadnaigue." Evidence of this, and of the will itself, is found in a deed given in 1702-3 by John's son "Thomas Weaver, Jr." to Thomas Lillibridge both of Newport, in which Thomas Weaver, Jr., conveyed "one half of a Fifteenth Share" in this tract.
The will of Sergeant Clement Weaver is not now known to be extant. When the British occupied Newport in the Revolutionary War they seized the town records and they were sunk in Hell Gate. The vessel in which they were deposited has been raised and efforts have been made to restore some of them, but thus far the will of Sergeant Clement Weaver has not been found and probably it is permanently lost. Except for this deed of his grandson nothing at all would be known of its contents. From other records of the other sons it seems likely that they both received land in the Westquadnaig Purchase also, and probably by bequest. Mr. Austin in his Rhode Island Dictionary says, "A reference to this will is found in a list of seventeen wills (between the dates of 1676 and 1695) that were presented to the Court in 1700, by parties interested, the law requiring three witnesses and these wills having but two." (Ref: History and Genealogy of a Branch of the Weaver Family; Fiske, item 13)
According to Quaker records, he and his wife are buried in the Friends Cemetery in Newport (unmarked).
He was a juryman in 1671, a member of the House of Deputies in 1678. [1]
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