When Benjamin Doty was born on 7 May 1755, in Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Silas Doty, was 33 and his mother, Susannah Bumpas, was 30. He married Eleanor Chapman about 1778. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died on 17 April 1835, in Austerlitz, Columbia, New York, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Green River, Hillsdale, Columbia, New York, United States.