When Benjamin Loomis was born in 1768, in Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Loomis, was 35 and his mother, Redexselena Wolcott, was 33. He married Nancy (2) Geer in September 1802. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1850. He died on 11 January 1851, at the age of 83, and was buried in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.