I apologize for the length of the link, but here is a patent for land in Symmes Purchase in Warren County, Ohio, issued in 1812 to Gen. Schenck: http://omp.ohiolink.edu/OMP/NewDetails?oid=2648940&fieldname=xml&results=10&sort=place&searchstatus=1&hits=227&searchmark=0&searchstring=Warren+County&searchtype=kw&format=list&count=9 Gen. Wm Schenck, born in New Jersey, attended Princeton before going to Ohio. He founded the city of Franklin, Ohio, and was active in politics and higher education as well as the attempt to bring canals to this area. (I KNEW I had heard the name besides in Montgomery County!) Kathy