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The year following young Joseph Smith's leg operation in New Hampshire, his family moved to a home in Norwich, Vt. Tradition holds that they rented this home from a man known as Squire Murdock. Joseph spent much of his time in Norwich on crutches as his leg healed. His brother, Don Carlos, was born at the Norwich home. While here, the Smith family experienced three successive years of crop failure during the years 1814 to 1816. Because of that, they moved west several hundred miles, finally settling in the area of Palmyra, N.Y.