When Abraham Fairchild was born on 10 January 1720, in Stratfield, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Alexander Fairchild, was 38 and his mother, Deborah Jackson, was 38. He married Rachel Scribner on 7 November 1742, in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 20 June 1803, in Redding, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 83.