In 1777, Henry Hamilton, British Lieutenant Governor of Canada, began to recruit American Indian war parties to raid the Kentucky settlements. That same year in March, the newly formed militia of Kentucky County, VA mustered in Boonesborough, where ten to 15 enslaved people lived. On April 24,1778, the British allied Shawnees lead by Chief Blackfish mounted the Siege of Boonesborough. Armed enslaved men fought along side their enslavers at the fort’s walls. After going beyond the fort walls to engage the attackers, London, one of the enslaved, was killed.