George Auxier

Deposition of George Oxer taken before Joseph Colville at William Conner's tavern in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, on November 1, 1798: "I was furloughed in January of 1775 and on the 27th James Fowler, Thomas Pitman and myself departed from the mouth of the New River and traveled in company to the Salt Lick. I killed a buffalo that evening. Fowler and Pitman were out and when they heard my shot they came in and went to the lick that evening. It is a branch of the Sandy River. The Indians had told us of a lick located at the fork of a creek and we named it Big Paint. It is about three miles from the Sandy river and twenty miles from Fowler's lick. It was in 1777 when the people on the Clinch River proposed to go to Salt Lick and make salt. James Fowler and myself were together on Shelby's Creek in 1775 where we parted and he went on ahead. We met again below the mouth of Paint Lick Creek and from there went on to the mouth of the New River. This was the same time that James Fowler was conducting the Indian called Morgan to the mouth of the New River. I own ten head of cattle and I am the father of ten children". Fayette County, Kentucky Records Volume I

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