When Timothy Toppan was born on 2 February 1698, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Peter Tappan Jr., was 35 and his mother, Sarah Kent, was 30. He married Eleanor Coffin on 9 July 1722, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 2 September 1796, in Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 98, and was buried in Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.