When Benjamin Hutchins Esq. was born on 26 March 1818, in Lachute, Argenteuil, Quebec, Canada, his father, John Sullivan Hutchins, was 41 and his mother, Catherine Cutter, was 34. He married Caroline Henrietta Felton on 10 August 1841. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 6 November 1903, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 85, and was buried in Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.