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life-like picture of this early period, noticing the additions 

 to the population, and the materials necessary to the use of 

 the settlement, by the arrivals of Endicott, Higginson, 

 Winthrop and others, tracing the various changes in this 

 system of land tenure then held to the present time, as 

 circumstances required, interspersed with brief sketches 

 of the habits, customs and occupations of the people in 

 the different periods. 



It may be needless to particularize more fully the inter- 

 esting and instructive communication of Professor Adams ; 

 it is intended to have the same printed in full in the His- 

 torical Collections of the Institute. 



Dr. J. W. Goodell, of Lynn, brought to the meeting 

 a curious old steam jack. This machine consists of an 

 iron vessel from which the escaping steam acts upon the 

 floats of a wheel, the power thus created was utilized in 

 turning the spit which was placed before the fire upon 

 hooks attached to the andirons, the same tire roasting the 

 meat and generating the steam in the machine, patented 

 by John Bailey, of Lynn, in 1795. 



Mr. E. P. Robinson, of Saugus, was then called upon 

 to give some account of the early and local history of 

 Saugus. After speaking of the "Hawkes' Homestead" 

 and the very notable gathering there in July, 1880, when 

 a reunion was held at the 250th anniversary of the family, 

 which embraced persons of the name from very many 

 states in the Union, bringing together divines, lawyers, 

 poets, editors, generals, farmers, artizans, etc., he pro- 

 ceeded to give an account of the Saugus "Iron Works," 

 the first in the country, and where the die was struck 

 which coined the first "Pine Tree shilling" of Massachu- 

 setts, by Joseph Jenks. He also described " Pulpit Hock " 

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