Various Christian sects sponsored tent meetings and revivals, and they competed vigorously for converts. This area was known as the "burned-over district," because it was given to frequent and fervent religious excitement. When Joseph was eleven, his family moved to Palmyra, New York, where Joseph lived almost all of his later childhood. The Smiths moved several times in less than twenty years. In his youth Joseph was largely deprived of a formal education, but he was instructed in reading, writing, and the basic rules of arithmetic his mother reported that he was often given to meditation and deep study. Joseph Smith was born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, the son of Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith. Joseph Smith's ancestors were ordinary New England farm people who emigrated from England to America in the seventeenth century and settled in Massachusetts.
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