22 bulletin of the essex institute. 



Lectures. 



Monday Evening, January 6, 1896. — Regular Meet- 

 ing in the Library room. — Three interesting papers were 

 read by members of the Local History Class, — one by 

 Miss Mary Ropes, on "John Horn or Orne," which called 

 out a discussion on the Orne Family, and the other two 

 by Miss Rosamond Symonds, on "Salem Neck and Winter 

 Island," and on "Salem Common." It was further 



Ordered, that this memorial of the last survivor of the 

 original board of government of the Essex Institute be 

 spread at large upon our records, and that a copy thereof 

 be transmitted to the family of the deceased. 



George Dean Phippen was born at Salem, April 13, 

 1815, in a homestead now numbered 20 on Hardy street. 

 The Phippens were domiciled in Salem before Charles I 

 made way for Cromwell to govern England and her de- 

 pendencies. For the more than fourscore years of his life, 

 Mr. Phippen has had no other residence than Salem. He 

 died at his home on Bridge street, December 26, 1895. 

 He was the son of Captain Hardy Phippen and of L^rsula 

 Symonds Phippen, his wife. 



Captain Hardy Phippen was a clerk under our first 

 Collector Hiller at the close of the last century, and later 

 an Inspector of Customs in the Salem Custom House. He 

 navigated the craft used by Dr. Bowditch in sounding 

 and surveying Salem harbor for his famous charts, and 

 was with the great astronomer on his early voyages while 

 his monumental life-work, Bowditch's Navigator, was 

 shaping itself in his mind. Captain Phippen's first voy- 

 age was sailed, 1795, in Elias Hasket Derby's famous ship 

 " Astrea." He followed the sea for upwards of twenty 

 years, sailing far and near for the Pickmans, Crownin- 

 shields, Derbys and Pickering Dodge. In 1808, he was 

 mate of the brig "Nabby," when Captain Nathaniel 



