The next year, Reynolds began a lecture tour with John Cleves Symmes, Jr..
:For his nephew, who believed in a hollow Earth, see John Cleves Symmes, Jr.
John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (1779-1829), nephew of the preceding, captain in the United States Army, promoter of a hollow earth theory
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The farm was once part of a 1 million acre (4,000 km²) tract of Springfield Township that was purchased in 1787 by John Cleves Symmes, a New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress and a pioneer in the Northwest Territory.
The township was originally held intact by John Cleves Symmes, with the apparent intent of naming it as the academy township for his purchase.
John Cleves Symmes (1742–1814), Father-in-law of William Henry Harrison, Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court 1777–1787, Delegate to the Continental Congress from New Jersey 1785–1786, Justice of the Northwest Territory Supreme Court 1788–1802.
Northside, also known as "Cumminsville", was first owned by John Cleves Symmes as part of his Symmes Purchase.
Another daughter Anna Tuthill Symmes was born at her father's estate Solitude, just outside Morristown, New Jersey (present day Wheatsheaf Farms subdivision off Sussex Avenue in Morris Township, New Jersey ) before his wife died in 1776.
In some local dealings he used the name Junior to distinguish himself from his prominent uncle John Cleves Symmes.
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Another follower, Jeremiah N. Reynolds apparently had an article that was published as a separate booklet in 1827: Remarks of Symmes' Theory Which Appeared in the American Quarterly Review.
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Compare a fictional echo of Symmes in Ian Wedde's Symmes Hole (1987); and a focus on both Symmes and Reynolds in James Chapman's Our Plague: A Film From New York (1993).
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Some think it was written as a satire of Symmes' ideas, and believe they identified the author as an early American writer named Nathaniel Ames who wrote other works, including one that might have served as the inspiration of Moby Dick.
John Cleves Symmes (1742-1814), delegate to the Continental Congress
The site was chosen by the State of Ohio for a college in order to fulfill the unkept promise of John Cleves Symmes.
The Northwest Territory had been established in 1787, within which Judge Symmes had organized the Miami Company and then advertised the availability of this land.
Named for John Cleves Symmes, it is one of two Symmes Townships statewide; the other Symmes Township is located in Lawrence County.