Laurens Ditmars was born in 1680, in Kings, New York Colony, British Colonial America. He married Elizabeth Josephse Hegeman on 29 October 1701, in Flatbush, Kings, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died on 21 July 1769, in Flatbush, Kings, New York Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 89, and was buried in Flatbush, Kings, New York Colony, British Colonial America.