Timothy Cleare was a Quaker who arrived in Perquimans Precinct, North Carolina by 1684. He held several public offices at various times during his life, including overseer of the road and justice of the Perquimans Precinct Court. In 1705 he served on a jury that freed Sanders, an American Indian man who had been indentured to Juliana Laker. He died in Perquimans in November 1724.