I found this portion of a diary entry, and thought others would enjoy reading it since my John and Sally Herrin were living near by during the same time period.  Grassy Lick is between North Middletown, Bourbon Co., KY and Mt. Sterling, Montgomery Co., KY.  In the 1830 census, my John and Sally were living in Bourbon Co., with North Middletown PO.  Additional tax records for Montogmery Co indicate they were living near the Bourbon/Montgomery Co., line.

My John and Sally left Bourbon Co., Ky for Ralls Co., KY about 1829.

The complete diary entry can be found on the Ancestry.com Message Board for Montgomery Co. KY under the thread "Grassy Lick Settlers".

"The meeting house and campground on the hill across Grassy Lick where the Methodist worship and came to camp once a year was of interest to the children as well as the grown up people. The little log huts all built around a square in which was seats and a preacher stand where the good people came once a year and staid a week or two and had a good happy social time.

In these gatherings the question of freeing the slaves was discussed secretly as they had a corner where they sat and worship. Seemed as well behaved and as devout as the whites. The Methodist church have always been against slavery. The Grassy Lick church became divided, but was strong enough and did turn out one of its prominent members for buying a slave. The good man still attended regular and joined on probation and was taken in full membership in six months. 

 These things steered people much. My father and others thought the situation serious. They did not want to raise their families either in a slave state or worse where the country would be full of uneducated blacks. About this time Indiana and Illinois were applying for admittance in the Union or had been admitted before under a free constitution. Missouri had a slave constitution. 

 Father, Uncle Jimmy Nelson Uncle Daniel Harrow and others felt the free states was what they wanted to make homes for their families if the country was good. In twenty nine they started for investigation on horse back carrying what they needed in saddlebags made of leather. They traveled on and on through woods of heavy timber poor roads sometimes only a bridle path, when they came near this center of Indiana ." 

 The family moved to Putnam Co., IN.