When Erik Eriksson was born about 1685, in Södermanland, Sweden, his father, Erik Jönsson, was 25 and his mother, Karin Larsdotter, was 25. He married Karin Gabrielsdotter on 28 December 1713, in Sköldinge, Södermanland, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died before 1753, in his hometown, at the age of 67.