North Saugus is a fine agricultural section with table land, pleasant and well watered, well adapted to farming purposes, and it was here that Adam Hawkes, the first of this name in this county, settled with his five sons in 1630, and took up a large tract of land.  He built his house on a rocky knoll, the spot being at the intersection of the road leading from Saugus to Lynnfield with the Newburyport turnpike, known as Hawkes’ Corner.  This house being burned the bricks of the old chimney were put into another, and when again this chimney was taken down a few years ago there were found bricks with the date of 1601 upon them.  This shows, evidently, that the bricks were brought from England.  This property is now in the hands of one of his lineal descendants, Louis P. Hawkes, having been handed down from sire to son for more than 250 years.  On the 28th and 29th of July, 1880, a family reunion of the descendents of Adam Hawkes was held to celebrate the 250th anniversary of his advent to the soil of Saugus.  It was a notable meeting, and brought together the members of this respected and respectable family from Maine to California.  Two large tents were spread and the trees and buildings were decorated with flags and mottoes in an appropriate and tasteful manner.  Judges, Generals, artists, poets, clergymen, lawyers, farmers and mechanics were present to participate in the re-union.  Addresses were made, poems suitable to the occasion rendered, and all passed off in a most creditable manner.  Among the antique and curious documents in the possession of Samuel Hawkes was the “division of the estate of Adam Hawkes, made March 27, 1672.”

Mrs. Dinsmore resided in this part of the town.  A most amiable woman, a good nurse, kind in sickness, and it was in this way that she discovered a most valuable medicine.  Her specific is claimed to be very efficacious in cases of croup and kindred diseases, and its use in such cases has become very general, as well as for headache.  She is almost as widely known as Lydia Pinkham.  She died in 1881.

[Illustration:  Mrs. Dinsmore.]

Saugus nobly responded to the call for troops to put down the rebellion, furnishing a large contingent for Company K, Seventeenth Massachusetts Volunteers, which was recruited almost wholly from Malden and Saugus, under command of Captain Simonds of Malden.  Thirty-six Saugus men also enlisted in Company A, Fortieth Massachusetts Volunteers, while quite a number joined the gallant Nineteenth Regiment, Col.  E.W.  Hinks, whose name Post 95, G.A.R., of Saugus bears, which is a large and flourishing organization.  There were many others who enlisted in various other regiments, beside those who served in the navy.

[Illustration:  Nineteenth regiment badge.]

Charles A. Newhall of this town is secretary and treasurer of the Nineteenth Regiment association, whose survivors still number nearly one hundred members.