When Martha Benjamin was born in October 1845, in Otsego, New York, United States, her father, Erastus Benjamin, was 23 and her mother, Ann Eliza Baldwin, was 27. She had at least 1 son with Richard Van Nort. She lived in Cooperstown, Otsego, Otsego, New York, United States in 1900 and Otsego, Otsego, New York, United States in 1910. She died on 4 January 1914, in New York, United States, at the age of 68.