Four generations of ancestors of the Prophet Joseph Smith lived in Topsfield, Mass. In the center of the village is this monument, below, in the Topsfield Common.

Opposite the common is the Congregational Church of Topsfield, left, the third religious edifice to be situated on the same site. Several of the Prophet's ancestors, including his father and grandfather, were baptized and worshipped in one of the earlier structures.

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