Hermon has asked about Adam's home in Clermont County. This is what I have found in the James B. Simmons writings: "About 1802 the Adam Simmons family moved from the Bullskin settlement to Monroe Township in Clermont County and settled near Big Bear Wallow [later called Laurel]. Adam is listed in an 1802 census. In 1804 or 1805 he bought land on the waters of Big Indian Creek and moved into the woods where he cleared the forest and built a cabin and planted an orchard. The cabin had a stairway was made of cherry wood. Over the entrance to the yard was an arch with the word "Welcome" carved in large letters. [In 1813 Adam received a government patent to this land.] Adam's grandson, James B. Simmons, wrote that the trees planted by Adam were still bearing good fruit when the Simmons family reunion was held at the old homestead on September 26, 1878. "There were three very fine varieties, one being the Maiden Blush placed on the table by Leonard Simmons, a grandson of Adam Simmons, who now owns the old homestead." [Big Indian Creek is called Indian Creek on the 1870 Monroe Township map. It drains into the Ohio at Point Pleasant, Ohio.] The legal description in the 1813 patent, which granted land to Adam Simmons and James Simmons, as tenants in common [Adam and James being assignees of a warrant originally issued to Sergeant John Woods] is as follows: "Survey of two hundred acres of land on a Military Warrant [No. 2100] in favor of the said John Woods, on the Northwest of the Ohio and on the waters of Indian Creek Beginning at two lynns and a beech, lower back corner to Thomas Boyne survey No. 723 and corner to John Woodford's survery No. 1156, running, with Woodford's line S70 W288 poles to two small sassafras, corner to Woodford and in the line of Joseph Eggleston's survey No. 1179; then with said line S29 E104 poles to an ash and sweet gum; thence N60 E 172 poles to three poplars in Brownes line; thence N7 E with said line 152 poles to the beginning ". This land is about one mile southeast of the village of Laurel. "Grandpa Simmons soon built him a good hewed log house in which he lived many years, and died July 23, 1827, aged 80 years, 6 months, and 8 days. I was with him the morning before his death. In 1878 I saw the old stairs he used to walk up, and also saw the hooks still on the wall where he used to hang his trusty rifle."