When Benjamin Churchill was born on 5 February 1747, in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Daniel Churchill Sr., was 36 and his mother, Abigail White, was 29. He married Elisabeth Hurlburt in 1777, in Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 20 April 1804, in Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Town Hill Cemetery, Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.