From the "Alton" book by Cheryl Eichar Jett.
Several Native American attacks were recorded during the early settlement of Illinois years.
During the War of 1812. Captain Thomas E. Craig burned a Native American village in Northern Illinois (Peoria) capturing 77 French, French-Native American, Native American and American individuals.
Historian James E. Davis said that Craig "shunted this assortment of humanity down the Illinois River, abandoning them on a dreary November day south of modern Alton."
Illinois Territory Governor Ninian Edwards. embarrassed by the debacle, compensated those stranded in the Alton area.
--Brock-Perry
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