When Samuel Bracket was born in 1797, in Maine, United States, his father, Nathaniel Brackett, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Lewis, was 24. He married Louisa Ingraham in April 1819. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Lewiston, Lincoln, Maine, United States in 1850. He died on 17 September 1883, in Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, United States, at the age of 86.