208      FRENCH AND INDIANS O* ILLINOI8 BIVBR.
saved his family as well ai other prisoners from massacre* He had traveled a long way to the Kankakee village, and given his pony and rifle to ransom Lieutenant Helm, and while tired and hungry he returned to find his home desolated and his friends murdered or driven away.
Notwithstanding Black Partridge h»d done all this, the whites made war against him, burned his town, destroyed his corn, carried off his ponies, killed about thirty of his people, among whom were his daughter and infant grandson, and he now lived only for revenge.
On the following summer Black Partridge, with about three hundred warriors mounted on ponies, left for the frontier settlements in the souther* part of the State. They went within thirty miles of the settlement, and secreted themselves in the thick timber of Shoal creek, now in Bond county. From here they sent out small war parties to attack the settlements and kill defenceless women and children. The frontier settlements in .Randolph, St. Clair and Madison counties were attacked by these Indians, and a number of persons killed, horses stolen, and cattle driven off and shot for beef. The people were greatly alarmed at these depredations of the Indians; many fled from their homes and sought safety at Cahokia and Kaskaskia; others built temporary forts to