26 BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE. 



name well fitted to keep alive the memory of the pioneers 

 and to mark the locality of Planters' Marsh where, in the 

 day of small things, the early denizens of this historic re- 

 gion cut their thatch and flagging. The touching tribute 

 paid by Mr. Phippen to his early associate and life-long 

 coadjutor, Doctor Wheatland, at the memorial exercises 

 reported in volume XXX of the Historical Collections, 

 was marked by a delicacy of tone, a discrimination and in- 

 sight, a fineness of phrase and a genuineness of sentiment 

 which give it rank as a model characterization. 



On the twenty-fifth anniversary of his birth, Mr. Phip- 

 pen was united in marriage with Margaret, a daughter 

 of Captain John Barton, of Salem, and she, with three 

 sons, survives him. His seventy-fifth birthday brought 

 with it the golden anniversary, closing a half-century of 

 cherished companionship, and this was very generally re- 

 membered by his friends and neighbors. At the joint 

 parade of the Second Corps of Cadets and the Salem Light 

 Infantry, a few years since, — that auspicious hour in which 

 the jealousies and rivalries of a century were buried out 

 of sight, Mr. Phippen marched with three sons, shoulder 

 to shoulder, in the Veteran Light Infantry. He joined 

 the active corps in 1832. With no lack of manly quality, 

 there was a fineness of fibre in ]Mr. Phippen's nature 

 which no one who was brought into close relations with 

 him could fail to recognize. His was one of those rare 

 spirits that rise so far above the grossness of the world 

 that to praise them seems almost an impertinence. He 

 seemed to keep to the last all the native freshness of his 

 early days and to refine away, as time went on, whatever 

 dross alloys this mortal part. 



In his death one more link is parted, and that a bright 

 one, which bound together the present and the past. 



