UNITED STATES DEPUTY MARSHAL CHARLES ADAMS Colorado appointment certificate 1883 for Sale

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UNITED STATES DEPUTY MARSHAL CHARLES ADAMS Colorado appointment certificate 1883:
$5000.00

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Official Appointment of
CHARLES ADAMS
as
UNITES STATES MARSHAL\'S DEPUTY,District of COLORADO
by
WALTER A. SMITH
Marshal of the United States for theDistrict of Colorado
Charles Adams(Karl Adam Schwanbeck)
was a United States Army officer duringthe Civil War;negotiated the release of the Meekerwomen who survived the Meeker Massacre(White River War) in 1879;Adams also served as an Indian Agentfor the Ute agencies in Colorado;he was a son-in-law of Colorado Territorialgovernor Edward McCook;Brigadier General of the Colorado StateMilitia circa 1870;Charles Adams and Otto Mears brought into justice in Lake City the San Juan Mountainscannibal, Alferd Packer, in 1874;Adams became a United States diplomat to Boliviain 1880.
Condition: near fine; originally folded twice vertically and twice horizontally, otherwise, bright and clean.
Document dimensions:12 inches by 8 inches
COLORADO ARTIFACTUAL