 Bronson was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati.Bronson was born on March 10, 1760, in Middlebury, Connecticut.He was the son of Captain Isaac Bronson (1736–1826) and Mary Bronson (d. 1810), and the older brother of Ethel Bronson (1765–1825), who married Hepzibah Hopkins Bronson (1768–1829) and Silas Bronson (1788-1867).