The Spokesrider

The new piece of information is that the government defended the suit against Marantette. I had known from reading the journal of the court that Andrew Backus had been an attorney for Marantette, but I had assumed that Marantette stood the cost himself. It turns out this is not so. In this letter Mason informs Schoolcraft that the government hired Backus to defend him, and that Backus was paid $300 for his work. That’s nearly three times of the damages and court costs assessed against Marantette. Nothing new about the ratio of lawyer fees to jury awards, I suppose.

This is a snippet of a Fulton County map I was working on last weekend. For my Black Hawk Slept Here website I want to build a collection of maps showing a) historical sites relating to the Black Hawk war and settlement era, and b) bicycleable routes to these places. It’s fun working with maps [...]