When Bethiah H (Bethia) (Bertha) Glover was born on 4 March 1743, in Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Benjamin Glover, was 34 and her mother, Mary Burwell, was 34. She married Joseph Tomlinson on 27 October 1763, in Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She died on 1 November 1799, in Brookfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Gallows Hill Burying Ground, New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.