When Matthew George Covey was born in 1700, in Dorchester, Maryland, British Colonial America, his father, William George Covey, was 41 and his mother, Mary Simpson, was 37. He married Mary Noble in 1728, in Dorchester, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He died in 1783, in Caroline, Maryland, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Caroline, Maryland, United States.