When Joseph Dorman was born on 13 December 1669, in New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Edmund Dorman, was 33 and his mother, Hannah Hull, was 28. He married Mary Wilmot on 24 August 1693, in New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. He died on 27 July 1712, in his hometown, at the age of 42, and was buried in New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.