George Spear was born, presumably in England, about the year 1613. He is first found in New England records in 1644 when on April 21 his daughter Mary was baptized in Roxbury, the parson stating that the father was "of the church of Brantree." … George was the only Spear in New England in those early decades of the seventeenth century with, or without, a wife named Mary. George took the Freeman's Oath on May 29, 1644. "George Speere Aged forty yeares or theare aboutes" testified on January 24, 1653. … Spear took the Oath of Allegiance on October 29, 1678. After his third marriage he went to New Dartmouth [now Newcastle] with his wife and occupied the Gent property. … on September 5 and 6, 1688, New Dartmouth was attacked by a strong force of Indians, and, although all but a few of the inhabitants were able to reach the safety of the garrison and eventually escaped to the westward, all of the houses and buildings were burned and the place was completely deserted for thirty years. George Spear, who must have been about seventy-five years old at the time of this attack, is not heard of again.
