When Benjamin Jones Boutwell was born on 12 June 1809, in Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Nehemiah Boutwell, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Cleaves Jones, was 32. He married Mary Fisher on 22 May 1834, in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 14 August 1836, in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 27.