Ancestry of
Joseph Smith

Founder of the Mormon Church

Samuel Smith Jr.

View famous kin of Samuel Smith

• • Great-grandfather of Joseph Smith — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Smith 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Curtis   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Jan 1714 
  • Birth Location:
  • Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Nov 1785 
  • Death Location:
  • Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Priscilla Gould
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 May 1734 
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  • Child:

  Asael Smith (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Additional marriages for Samuel Smith Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Priscilla Gould
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Oct 1745
  • Marriage Location:
  • Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts

• Sources for Samuel Smith Jr.

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Topsfield, Vol. 1, p. 96, Birth record for Samuel Smith.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Topsfield, Vol. 1, p. 250, Death record for Samuel Smith.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Topsfield, Vol. 1, p. 150, Marriage record for Samuel Smith and Priscilla Gould.
  • ⁴ The Essex Genealogist, 1983, Vol. 3, pp. 63-64.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Mary Audentia Smith, Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale: With Little Sketches of Their Immigrant Ancestors All of Whom . . ., Independence, Missouri: Herald Publishing House (1929), 55-59, 104-105, see chart preceding p. 51.
  • ⁶ Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, The Family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield, Lynn, Massachusetts: Published by Thos. P. Nichols (1895), 53.