When Joseph Packard was born in 1699, in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Packard, was 44 and his mother, Judith Winslow, was 27. He married Susanna Mitchell on 31 December 1724, in Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 19 October 1760, in Brockton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.