Other accounts state that the planning was conducted at a large meeting held in Papinsville after the Hamilton's were driven out of the KT. Supposedly, a group of displaced pro slavery men from Kansas and some Bates Countians determined to go back over to Kansas and teach the free staters a lesson, which resulted in Hamilton's Massacre... Jackson's store was a well known/common stopping point heading west and east into/out of Linn County... as such even if Hamilton's group stopped at Jackson's store on their way back from the incident, it would have made his store a target for the Jayhawkers... even if the planning was not done there..

Of note is the fact that Montgomery also retaliated upon the town of West Point after the Hamilton raid. "Tit for Tat" was the rule at this time... especially along the Linn County/Bates County Border...where but a cartographer's invisible line seperated the antangonists/combatants.

-chris tabor
butler, mo