History of the families Millingas and Millanges of Saxony and Normandy, comprising genealogies and biographies of their posterity surnamed Milliken, Millikin, Millikan, Millican, Milligan, Mulliken and Mullikin, AD800-AD1907; containing names of thirty thousand persons, with copious notes on intermarried and collateral families, and abstracts of early land grants, wills, and other documents .. . likin were recorded in NicholasCo., Ky. Tradition says he lost all of his property in Kentucky by goingsecurity for others ; and his slaves were probably taken from him by pro-cess of law. The farm of
History of the families Millingas and Millanges of Saxony and Normandy, comprising genealogies and biographies of their posterity surnamed Milliken, Millikin, Millikan, Millican, Milligan, Mulliken and Mullikin, AD800-AD1907; containing names of thirty thousand persons, with copious notes on intermarried and collateral families, and abstracts of early land grants, wills, and other documents .. . likin were recorded in NicholasCo., Ky. Tradition says he lost all of his property in Kentucky by goingsecurity for others ; and his slaves were probably taken from him by pro-cess of law. The farm of Capt. James Mullikin in Fleming Co., Ky., was about 300yards from the old Mt. Tabor church, and on the old state road leading fromBlue Lick Springs and points beyond, through the Kentucky and Virginiamountains, to the eastern markets to which the farmers drove their fattenedstock to be sold ; and there he kept the well and widely known MullikinsInn, where the drovers passed the nights and fed their cattle. The oldhouse is still standing in very good repair, and occupied by James Ogdon. One fork of Buchanans Creek, called the Mount Tabor Branch, flowedup on the south side of the Mullikin farm, while Elk creek on the north,headed up near the house. When the Mullikin family settled on their land near Mt. Tabor church,there was only an old log structure and a burying ground there ; but about. MULLIKINS IN FLEMING COUNTY, KENTUCKY. 585 1823, the citizens of that locality replaced the original building with a brickchapel, and Richard and Basil Mullikin helped to make the bricks and didother work on the house. It is said that the wife of Capt. Mullikin, beingan old-fashioned Methodist, used to make the walls of the old log meetinghouse ring with her public exhortations and invocations. Among the slaves carried from the old plantation on the Patuxent to thenew plantation in Kentucky, was a full-blooded Guinea negro purchased ofthe slave-traders. Mary, the slave girl given his daughter,
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