Show i obert Smith Sm Progenitor of The Great Gre t Mormon Prophet Mormon people pepie Hf Deseret t News In readers of at the th Ihl In ht r ular will WUl be knowledge that tho the two e anniversary of at thirteenth and Smith n Ih the Amen merl merln ht be del ot of Robert of oC the Prophet I run n Thursday Aug 3 33 I r arced on r c They h will 11 bi b bj bir eh I of 01 tj perusal of ot the tho narrative j 1 r tl a per hi hat f It ws I I no nn better belter Illustration t I there 1 it the th Ihl relative value alu of ot off ofa or of f the cannot be told toll ter rr I a char ha has t la rJ ll It In ln perspective per 11 t hf f Robert rt Smith While ih Ihl iha the fd 11 In thero i was u ra I life if tin hl I whose names willI will tie tell i I art are 1 a hl hither pr place on 01 the na nan r br I by future hopr M ef MI f n I a r rein n P i that of ot the thc Puritan third Ih n r 1 of ot the Jo I great I that n a sketch ut of his hili lh c I h ph II to 10 o and thin e 11 I art s M of oe hitI h death will b be r n red th h n I page of ot the Ihl sketch 1 r the hf Prophet I t t h byte Hf at count of oC hl his an anI ang l g t f f Der bor lri the ot of our Lord lArd i tI i as tIght fight hundred arid tin live liver th ID ir n rims hind day da of or December Dt r the n f Miar m Windsor county It V r lf It Mi My h father JJ Joseph Josephy epli hut a 1 July Jul 12 1771 71 In Tops y 7 1 i x 1 only J Massachusetts IllIs his L VW rN rN N N N N 1 mi ment nt of oC Puritanism would Hould dare to In break away a CAME ClIE ALONE ALO E Another question here presents pre Itself lt for tor which we wc can only conjecture an AI answer a It boy bor of ot not more mote than 15 16 I years year of oC ar af ape what brought HobErt from home Was he alone In Inh Ihl h world orld n and ud but hUI following out the received at a Ii devout mothers knee or from the lips of ot an exiled tether father Or la is l hi his hili rare rae the p parallel of ot ofee eo II many sueh among the tho early settlers of Wee Vu g he ho tent sent out to the Purl tan tall Zion to prepare the way for tor parents and a brothers and anil listers 1 who never nc r rI cane cam I As M will he be remembered the civil elvil v war r broke out four years after he ire left England We e are sure cure only of oC oCth tills th lid that so to far as A s w we e know no rela reia relative tive t V of oC hit hi ever pr came cam 1 me to the new n world orld Smith In his hie hi struggle with th the flood aloner alone HIS Ills FIEST AMERICAN A HOME IE r His Hie HI first t home was waa WI made at Ipswich Ip a town on the roast of ot Rico EBle coun county county ty I tint lint settled In March by b John Jr and 1 13 other Of this locality the noted Capt John Smith of ot early Virginia tame fame who w was Willi aa a native natle of oC Lincolnshire Rives gives in UI nn an account In R a l single boat boa I with eight or nine companions companion h ranged slung aloni the coast ft front cm col In Maine to 10 Capo Cape Coil Cod as 1111 early parly MS ss 1611 fix ix Years before the advent of the Ill and of oC Ipswich II then called b by bl bythe th the Indian name nanne of oC Agawam he writes Here are arc man Inan many rising hills and on their ir tope top and nd descents are nr many Inan corn M 0 1 Y fd r J J JI Jf I I f wy N 1 I r rn X X J rs X tax n s f n its hi i n t tl V y 1 I 1 I I y J y I l t I Ia y y yX 1 a X y X I m Ia y t tM tI fX f i X X 9 X M I X XA A t A Y I 1 t I IY Jh J X f h I t f ft A LL 0 I H 4 r n 5 r rJOHN JOHN WINTHROP THE YOUNGER rounder founder of oC Ip lell and Gorr of Connecticut tinier Cho Vho hol c Grant Itoh Holl Hollerl crt cat Smith Obtained Title to In 0 Acres of Loud Port ur of Is IsO O b II by Ills f rather ther Smith was nas born 1 liIl 1741 In hit his hist hi t tr Samuel Smith second i 1 I Ras Wa born Jan 16 6 me In laII tI his hi father Samuel Samul Smith lea t born Jan 25 26 6 1666 In his hi hl father Robert Hobert Smith came CAmP from Irom England SMITH rt Smith was IS tarn born stout 1623 1621 and nd came ame to New elf England In 1 IUS BIth BItha v Ith M a company made up liP by b Whit of If a n village in to the of or in Tills Thill county fount was WAR a hotbed ff r f early In tho the seventeenth when John Smith led f 1 a con conn uta Ion ar at hu Trent r lu lust t north of Boston BoIlon It II was In Bo Torn Lincolnshire that the Reverend John Jahn Cotton Totton a noted Puritan d religious for tor some years nar f rs before hi his hili departure for tor the ol 01 In m iU IW Speaking of ot the tho notable from which hid the earn Mr Jr Hutchinson Pays tays U contributed mate of C our flur principal families derive origin from thence than Ihan from any airy tent wrt of It England the tho city elt of ot bt U wt an exception tX Sat liar the company tom formed by b Baruch was nas not lIot conducted to toN N Sew tv w Ingland by b himself for Cor shortly before they n were more ere ready read to 10 start tart he ho took tO k Ick and dl decd d His wife Martha Hub bud w l Whittingham lion however ever took up th the vi where here where lie he had laid It down sad M after being detained In London lAndon by b bI th I the f of oC the of oft t for tor some ROme weeks finally pot got gotto Ot j to 11 Pea a and landed at Salem In May Ia I WHENCE Cl DID JID HE liE COME COI rum rom what hat part of ot England I did nob Rob Roberr nobI err t I Smith come rome J Locating the former l hems hemps ms of these thele exiles exile U is very er much like tracing vins a 1 single drop of ot rain back to toM tit M particular spot pot In tho ocean ocran from which It came He may ml have linn started aith th the company from Boston Ho ton or he lit hety hesty sty ty have Joined them thun somewhere alone alon at bf way Vas to Gravesend below heo London lAndon line heir tr they the took ship Hut h he this as ns asif if l y j whether he Im from ho rho h M tl I fU of or Boston where the company u made up or Joined them during lr attention dt d Uon In London hailing from from Es E as all fatally family Ira tra w It has hu it II certain It Is I that he h came 1 America at al u a 1 time when the most mont rf efforts were nere ere being made by byn h hp p wn n to re embarrass t the te e d i of r when only the best beet tIe etc tIei i O X fields nelli and delightful groves gro I On the tho cast Is nn an Isle idle of ot two or three leagues league In length the tilt one OUI hale halfe plain ground round lit for tor pasture or salt ponds pond with many a 11 faire high groves of oC Mul Mull Mulberry l I berry erry rr There are te also alo ekes oko pines walnuts und and lint other wood to In make this place an excellent habitation COMMENCES CES HIS The growth of ot Ipswich was wall very er slow for tor nearly twenty years after Its first Bret t settlement and fourteen years lors rs after th the boy bo Hobert Robert Smith commenced his hiM ca rt career career reer teer there we re t fitE told lold In III ft n description of ot the place written by IJ Edward John Johnson Johnson son lion In In 1662 that II It contained but one onehundred onehundred hundred bundred and forty fort Cort families He lie says This Tills town ton Is situated on a fair tall and delightful river whose first rise or spring begins about five and atIlt twenty tulles miles mil farther up In the th country Issuing forth a very Or pleasant pond IlOnd Hut But soon after It betakes Its course courne through a most hideous swamp of large extent even eEn for Cor many man miles mUe being a Il great harbour for bears bear After Us Its omens forth this place It larger larler by bythe b bythe the Income of oC many mall small rivers and Issues ue forth In III the tea sea due ea eat east t over against the thc Island bland of or Shelo Shelt A great gre reat t place of ot for our h nation lion The peopling of ot this town U is by men of good rank and quality many man of ot them having the yearly earl revenue of oC large lands In England before they cite came ADle to 10 this WHERE TOWN TOW LIES This town lies In the or Earldom of or Agawam now by b our English nation railed It Is la a 1 avery very crt good bood haen haven town ton yet tt a little bar ber barred berred barred red up UJ At t the mouth of or the river Some merchants here hN ate are but Hasten being b the tho place dace of oC resort of or shipping tarries a away ay alt all al the trade They The ht have hup very ery fr good lAnd fur for husbandry where rocks rack hinder not 1101 the course tOU 1 of oC th the plough The Lord lArd hath bath been pleased to 10 them In corn com m and cattle of at late Insomuch that they the have hl many man hundred quarters to spare yearly and feed nt fit the Utter latter Hid end of ot summer th the town of ot Boston Hoston with good wet beet Their houses h use aro are many man of oC them very ery fr fair built with pleasant gardens ardene and orchards ards arde consisting of ot about one hundred and coil sixty Chronicle of Mass Malia pp note Here Robert Hobert Smith lived IhM and An from these goodly people he ht learned the work monk and net the responsibilities of ot life There were for tor him very U few r of ot the thc pleasures pleasure of It youth and Carly manhood d nt nI w we HI HIX X X X I I If f I e f fI fi 1 fi i X l i 1 I I 1 1 J 1 1 1 Ix 1 l 1 M t X s s s 1 1 I I t i f I I r I M OL r V W MM V 00 THE PARSON CAJEN OJEN OAf EN HOUSE I t 1 fl r l in uI lest u II if t tr 11 c I J nil Ili III in III tine tun fir of if mi know I them for or the pe tIm of life lite In the th colonies of ot New tw was pla played M al altogether altogether together on the minor keys Ie Joy JO was wu for Cor the ungodly lire life was waa n a 1 serious bus bUB innes Religion nell loll entered into every eer set act of life III every en thought was war as colored by 11 It and the philosophy of ot mortality dwelt more mo ut IH upon tho power of It Sawn Satan than upon the Ihl mercy mer of Cod GoJ MARRIES MARY n CH About four tour years after the foregoing I description d wu III written n Hobert rt South tuck took to himself a R wife lie He Miss Mis Miry Mary French of ot Ipswich a It de tie devoutly religious woman an as the church show and a wise IH saintly toothier I as u the lives of ot her children testify After two t children had been horn botn 1 to 10 them at HI the purchase w was os mad made of a tract of un mt undulating forest Corell land some four mites to te lire south lOuth and we west t extending over ever jErOS MS OS 36 acres of at ground around partly pailly In time the town township township township ship of oC Howl Ito vIey afterward Hoxford Boxford and partly In which with about 14 H families camilles had been Incorporate In t te ten n years before Here In the midst t of oC the forest neon near the thc center of ot his purchase he cleared learid the timber from a Ii commanding knoll K so RS as R to be the better able abl to protect himself lt from the wolves nolte bears bear und end I In Indian n diane dian and over a mile mill from Crom M hl his neni nea Mt Ht neighbor built lIu II I a it home hum Or Of his first dwelling we fo have no Information but bUI the second one on 1 built about l s i is described to us by b hit his Iho still hill t III occupy the spot of ground lid on which It wen torn down do n some J yo f UM aw 1110 a O It Jt was wait built of ot squaw squared 1 logs gs t 1 v I high with Ith four Cour r 1 lit it b bv hy is It I feet in ill extent two brio below for or kit kid i hen ien en ani best beet bEt t room and two 1111 above abote I for bedrooms room s The outside was turned Ith Iet i oak olk clapboards clapboard and the thc roof rOlf with nth 1 split cedar jar shingles while K s 1 large I brick chimney with lIh huge hug fl en opening Into this the rooms on either s stun sio ae reared Itself II IC In the th middle Samuel Smith the son on of ot and this III an ancestor of th the Prophet Joseph seems to have I teen been the th moving genius in the tine erection of ot this home for tor cm on one ont Ole It the chimney still preserved among the antiquities of the Ihl young nun man before the mud was wan yet pl dry Inscribed his name The family In Utah one of oC tiers rote s sand and though over oCr two Iwo t oM oil i t Mill still rings ring true as us a II sliver silver dollar Iollar OK or HIS III DAYS VA y yIn In this home borne Robert Smith spent III the remainder of hi his days dAI Though if 1 t distance over the Ihne Into 1111 Bif t rJ rd and ami generally known a Le as Smith of be he chunk mem in III ti ii l 11 then his hl children were 11 00 tutu into the th all st 1 church Here lIe font the thc soil noli the i SI a athe i ithe the Ue anneals a and td tile tae woods n I n ht hr wrested all ull the necessaries of or lif liffor if for Cor himself and family Of the character of oC Hob rt tenth of the IhO striking Incidents of his hin life Ilk if there were WI an any we e know kno taut hut Pr ors rv it I IU itIle In he Ie w n Into lalO tl U Ile his hi forest retreat gr I Ith the th e esteem teem of his hl neighbors nfl for Cor hi his hili I honest holiest and industry and ami nil va was 1 as Mot kiu I i according to tI lee local hl historian torian i a a 11 quiet unassuming nun man devoted denoted to hn hI I and nd tn in the t welfare ElICIT of oC tin th vl 1 la lage Ille e ever ready to lend II a hellIng hell ing ha hato I to 10 the Ih needy Rut But the highest i enon um urn that can be yawed pasted IA Hd upon th chit iha dl deter acter of an In any man I is III un unwittingly pi paid 1 him bj by 11 those who knew him hint test h I own ton eons Jn I AX AN FATHER After the death of their father i order to clear clan tilt the title to their I pois po sr slon the th several eons among thin then eeles and with their ex exchanged ex exchanged changed rhan ed a number of dus dusto d us 8 to the land lewd formerly owned b IJ by Lut and In each CAth of these th onOan fel fellow I low lowing Ing the name of oC Smith the tho makers maker have hae Insisted upon placing on the thc records of ot roans the II clause our honored fattier father These words word bear baar to 10 the heart of the t 11 realer an echo of ot the kindly kind counsels nd or I wise wiFe e paternal of that honored father In III t with which the adulation of oC the l U Ie i as sounding brass brall Robert and Mary Smith hud ud 11 children j jas as follows follow I J Thomas Smith who hl was as born about 1617 1667 1 in Ipswich Massachusetts Tho The early arl town records were very ery poor poorly poorly ly I kept rind neither the exact date dale of ot the th birth of Thomas Thornas nor of the mar marriage maro of oC Robert nobert and Mary Ian Smith tall fan be he found Thomas married r and a nIl Is le I known ns as S the Innkeeper It II Mary Smith who win was ap b burn brn rn Oc n October tober tuber 23 S 1615 at Ipswich and ant who mar liar married ried reed John Towne TorI of ot I III II Phebe Smith who was bon bun Aug Aus August Augurt ut urt C G 16 1661 l at al the tho new nl home In Box Boxford ford forc then Rowley She Sh married Jacob Towne of ot IV lY 1 Smith who ho was Wall bom honn b rn October OCtol er 29 9 16 1665 In Boxford Hoxford mair ma r l lMar l j Mot Mary Ramsdell of ot V Y Samuel Smith who was vas IM bun n I January JC 26 IlG in Boxford i neM A Curtis Curtle of ot VI J Ame me Smith who VV woe waR B nm Au August I gust KUSI 16 and who ho married Jo fth I Tow Tone Towne ne neVII VII Sarah Smith who wa was born boin i June I L and nd who died August AUgUH t I 1673 vill Pill Nathaniel 1 Smith who vas born lorn Sept Sent 7 1 1671 1 16 and who I In I Olid young oun IX Jacob Smith who ho w was born Jan Janu Januar u Rf I SP 1671 X Marini Smith who was wan horn rk rn Doc floe 1 IS 1677 and anti who married Peter I Shumway i |