When Bethia Reynolds Close was born on 31 March 1742, in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Gideon Reynolds, was 36 and her mother, Bethia Horton, was 32. She married Capt Odel Close on 16 December 1756, in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 17 February 1832, in her hometown, at the age of 89, and was buried in Close Cemetery, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.