wear served as a state constitutional delegate and was the first county clerk of sevier county under the state of franklin, 1786–1787. wear kept the county clerk position through the several local, regional, and federal governmental changes that followed, and still held the position when the area received statehood in 1796. in february 1788, wear, fighting alongside sevier against tipton's forces, took part in the siege of tipton's abode (at the so called "battle of franklin").