When Hepsibah Norton was born on 19 December 1758, in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Norton, was 25 and her mother, Hephzibah Swain, was 25. She married Eliphalet Johnson on 27 May 1782, in Royalston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 9 March 1848, in Fitzwilliam, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 89.