George Fayerweather III (1802– 13 November 1869) was an American blacksmith and activist for abolitionism. He was of mixed Narragansett and African Ancestry from South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States.^[1][2]

Fayerweather was born to George Fayerweather, a blacksmith who built the 1820 Fayerweather homestead, and a Narragansett woman who was the descendant of a sachem.^[1] His father was descended from slaves freed after the American Revolutionary War.

Like their father, Fayerweather and his brother Solomon took up blacksmithing as a skilled trade, as did several of their descendants. It was a key position in a 19th-century village.

Fayerweather moved to Canterbury, Connecticut, where in 1833 he married Sarah Harris (1812–1878), a free black woman born in Norwich, Connecticut, to free parents. She was the first African-American girl admitted to Prudence Crandall’s school in Canterbury.^[3] Several parents took their daughters out of the school, and it was closed under the notorious Connecticut Black Law of 1833.^[4]

Fayerweather and his family moved to Kingston in 1855 to the Fayerweather homestead; he followed his father and brother Solomon as the village blacksmith.^[2][5] Their residence became a center of anti-slavery activity in the community, and they entertained numerous famous abolitionists in their home.^[5]

Fayerwether died on 13 November 1869 in Kingston, and was buried at Old Fernwood Cemetery.^[2]

• Guide to the Fayerweather Family Papers, University of Rhode Island