From: "History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio, Volume 1, Historical, originally published in 1913, by Bron Williams

"Because of the early occupation of Maysville as the eastern port to the Kentucky settlements and still more, perhaps, owing to the proximity of Fort Kenton, the stronghold of the almost fabulous Simon Kenton, the Ohio side for miles above and below is veiled with a glamour in which mighty hunters come and go in ways than can not be effaced from the old traditions which may have been based on facts rather than imagination. For, the danger gave richer zest to the fascination that lured the venturesome to chase the forbidden game of Ohio. But the huts for such transient purpose, though claimed by the bravest scouts, do not class with a settler's cabin. William and Anna Dunlap Kinkead with her brother, William Dunlap, built a cabin near Ripley and then concluded to go to a tract near Chillicothe owned by the father of the Dunlaps. On reaching that tract they distrusted the Indians still lingering there. Their fear was sharpened by the fact that Kinkead's mother had been captured from her husband and three babes, of which one was  butchered in her sight, and taken to that same Chillicothe thirty-two years before. During that captivity, the mother's fourth child was born. But, before the years was gone. Bouquet's dramatic expedition to Coshocton in 1764 forced the Shawnees to surrender their captives, and Mrs. Kinkead was restored to her family. Reflecting upon all the horror of the place in that time, young Kinkead stopped not to unpack his goods but straightway returned to the deserted cabin by Eagle Creek, where Anna gave him nine children, of whom seven lived long. After a year with his sister and brother-in-law, William Dunlap married Polly Shepard, whose parents had just come from Virginia to White Oak with several grown children. William and Polly Dunlap starting a clearing near the Kinkeads and built a cabin where eight children came and grew to much credit."