Register of the Coffin-Hyde Family Papers, 1791-1877
Processed by Holt Atherton staff; rev. by Don Walker; machine-readable finding aid created by
Don Walker
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
University Library, University of the Pacific
Stockton, CA 95211
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Fax: (209) 946-2810
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University of the Pacific. All rights reserved.
Register of the Coffin-Hyde Family Papers, 1791-1877
Collection number: Mss149
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
University Library
University of the Pacific
Contact Information
- Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
- University Library, University of the Pacific
- Stockton, CA 95211
- Phone: (209) 946-2404
- Fax: (209) 946-2810
- URL: http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections.html
- Processed by:
- Holt Atherton staff; rev. by Don Walker
- Date Completed:
- October 1998
- Encoded by:
- Don Walker
© 1998 University of the Pacific. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Coffin-Hyde Family Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1791-1877
Collection number: Mss149
Creator:
John Spooner
Extent: 1 reel microfilm
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Coffin-Hyde Family Papers, Mss149, Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Access Points
personal name
Coffin, Abel
personal name
Hyde, John Angier
personal name
Hyde, Ephraim A.
personal name
Coffin family
personal name
Hyde family
corporate name
Massachusetts Medical Society
subject
Medicine -Massachusetts
subject
Merchant ships -United States
subject
Merchant marine -Officers
subject
Ship captains -Massachusetts
subject
Merchant ships -Massachusetts -1775-1865
subject
Prisoners of war -Georgia -Andersonville -Correspondence
subject
Massachusetts -History -Sources
Biography
Abel Coffin (d. 1837) captained a number of ships for a company based in Boston (Mass.)
and engaged in trans-Atlantic trade. Dr. John Angier Hyde and Dr. Ephraim A. Hyde were
Massachusetts physicians (1790s-1840s). A member of the Hyde family was a prisoner-of-war
at Andersonville (Ga.) Prison during the Civil War. In 1858 some members of the Hyde
family sailed to California on the "Dakota." They settled in San Francisco and in Marin
County. John Pitcher Spooner, prominent 19th c. photographer of Stockton (Calif.), was
related to the Coffin and Hyde families.
Scope and Content
The Coffin-Hyde Papers contain: correspondence and sailing instructions of ship's Captain
Abel Coffin (1817-1841); and, correspondence and other documents of the Hyde Family
(1791-1877). The original materials are held by the Spooner family; this collection is
presently available only on microfilm.
Container List
BOX 1: COFFIN-HYDE PAPERS
1.1: ABEL COFFIN PAPERS, 1817-1819 [4 items]
1.2: ABEL COFFIN PAPERS, 1820-1829 [9 items]
1.3: ABEL COFFIN PAPERS, n.d. [3 items]
1.4: ABEL COFFIN PAPERS, 1833-1841 [9 items]
1.5: ABEL COFFIN PAPERS, unident. materials [5 items]
1.6: HYDE FAMILY PAPERS, 1791-1795 [3 items]
1.7: HYDE FAMILY PAPERS, 1803-1804 [2 items]
1.8: HYDE FAMILY PAPERS, 1835-1843 [4 items]
1.9: HYDE FAMILY PAPERS, 1863-1877 [9 items]
1.10: HYDE FAMILY PAPERS, misc. papers [2 items]
