Editing John Sutter (section)

===Land grant challenge===
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Sutter's El Sobrante (Spanish for leftover) land grant was challenged by the Squatters' Association, and in 1858 the [[Supreme Court of the United States|US Supreme Court]] denied its validity.

Sutter got a letter of introduction to the Congress of the United States from the governor of California. He moved to [[Washington, D.C.]] at the end of 1865, after Hock Farm was destroyed by fire in June of that year. Sutter sought reimbursement of his losses associated with the Gold Rush, and received a pension of US$250 a month as a reimbursement of taxes paid on the El Sobrante grant at the time that Sutter considered it his own.

He and wife Annette moved to [[Lititz, Pennsylvania]] in 1871. The proximity to Washington along with the reputed healing qualities of Lititz Springs appealed to the aging Sutter. He also wanted three of his grandchildren (he had grandchildren in [[Acapulco]], Mexico, as well) to have the benefits of the fine private [[Moravian Church|Moravian]] Schools. Sutter built his home across from the Lititz Springs Hotel (renamed in 1930 as the General Sutter Inn and subsequently as the Lititz Springs Inn & Spa).

After prospectors had destroyed his crops and slaughtered cattle leaving him only his own gold, Sutter spent the rest of his life trying to get the government to pay him for his losses, without success. He continually petitioned Congress for restitution but little was done. On June 16, 1880, Congress adjourned, once again, without action on a bill that would have given Sutter US$50,000 (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=50000|start_year=1880}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}). Two days later, Sutter died in the Mades Hotel in Washington. His body was returned to Lititz and buried adjacent to [[God's Acre]], the [[Moravian Church|Moravian]] Graveyard; Annette Sutter died the following January and is buried with him.