When Benjamin Veasey was born on 17 January 1694, in Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, William Veasey, was 46 and his mother, Mary Sanders, was 40. He married Dorothy Spear on 19 December 1726, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died in 1761, at the age of 67.