When Merab Botsford was born in 1783, in Jordan, Elbridge, Onondaga, New York, United States, her father, Ephraim Botsford Jr., was 33 and her mother, Merab Doud, was 29. She married Morris Bishop about 1803, in Jordan, Elbridge, Onondaga, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She died in April 1839, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Eulalia Cemetery, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, United States.