1813, 200 years ago this year.

John C. Waller, husband of Joseph Smith Sen.'s sister Priscilla was the Senior Warden of the Masonic Federal Lodge in Randolph in 1804. A John Smith was Senior Warden in 1813, possibly Joseph Smith Sr's brother (although he may have moved by then).

[Source: Brooke, John L. The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.]

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