Capt. Johannes Jacob Simons

The progenitor of the Simmons (spelled originally Simons) family of Jones, Craven and Duplin counties was John Simmons of the village of Bucha in Switzerland. He came to New Bern, North Carolina, with Baron Christopher Von Graffenreid in 1710. He was the son of Benedict and Katherine Schetele Simons. Two of his sisters, Madlena Himler and Ann Margretha Weiman came to New Bern with the Palatines, but it is believed that they were killed in the massacre by the Tuscarora Indians. John Simmons was granted land on the south side of the Trent River in what is now Jones County. His descendant, the late United States Senator, F.M. Simmons, lived on the same plantation. He married Margaret Bussett and they had the following eight children: John, Daniel, Benjamin, Abraham, Emanuel, Katherine, Mary and Elizabeth. John Simmons' will was probated in 1741 and he left a plantation and slaves to each of his children.

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John SIMMONS (Simons) was one of the Palatines who planted the colony at New Bern in 1710. From the evidence of a letter written in New Bern in 1711 by the members of the Simons family and sent to their relatives in Europe, it appears that John (or "Johannes" as he was called in the German of the letter) and his sisters were the only members of the Simons family to have survived. He was
granted lands on the south side of the Trent River, traditionally thought to be on the land now known as "Simmon's Neck" in Jones County, North Carolina John's will was probated in Craven County on September 24 1742 and it names his wife, Margaret BUSSETT, and his children to each of whom he "devised" a plantation and slaves.

The home of the late Senator F. M. Simmons stands on the plantation today. The land has never been out of the Simmons family control.

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