Note 38 — Chapter XIII
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May’s Lick was named for John May of Virginia, its original owner, who was killed by Indians when descending the Ohio in 1790.
Millersburg was settled by John Miller about 1784, on lands that he had located in 1775 on Hinkston Creek, in Bourbon County. It is still a small town and the present seat of Kentucky Wesleyan University, founded in 1817.
Henry Savary was an enterprising Frenchman who kept one of the first stores in Millersburg.—Ed.