Coffin-Hyde Family Papers, 1791-1877

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Summary

Title:
Coffin-Hyde Family Papers,
Dates:
1791-1877
Creators:
John Spooner
Language:
English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Coffin-Hyde Family Papers, Mss149, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Background

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.

Biographical / historical:

Abel Coffin (d. 1837) captained a number of ships for a company based in Boston (Massachusetts) 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 (Georgia) 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 (California), was related to the Coffin and Hyde families.

Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Physical description:
1 reel microfilm

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Holt Atherton staff; rev. by Don Walker; machine-readable finding aid created by Don Walker
Date Prepared:
© 1998
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Date of source: October 1998.

Access and use

Restrictions:

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

Location of this collection:
University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University Library
Stockton, CA 95211, US
Contact:
(209) 946-2404
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