Benjamin Prindle was the son of Ebenezer Prindle and Elizabeth Hobby. He was born before July 4, 1703 in Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut at which time he was baptized in the Milford Church along with his parents and several of his siblings. He bought land in Greenwich, Connecticut from Nathaniel Worden on April 23, 1722. He died there between December 3, 1724 when he was appointed as the administrator of his brother's estate in his brother's, Enos', will and February 6, 1733/34 when his own estate was inventoried.