When Edward Packard was born in 1732, in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Packard, was 33 and his mother, Susanna Mitchell, was 29. He married Ruth Bonney on 1 December 1757, in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died in 1806, in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 74.