Marilyn A. Owen wrote: > Philip Parr called Richard Covington his "brother-in-law in his will. That designation had three meanings in those times, the first two of which we still use today. > 1. My wife's brother > 2. My sister's husband > 3. My step-brother Marilyn, you are forgetting a fourth possibility, that of my wife's brother-in-law. It is possible that Judith Alleman, wife of Phillip Parr , had a sister who married Richard Covington as his first wife before he married Ann Young. An even further possibility is that of brother-in-law of my wife's brothers, that is, a brother of one of the wives of Judith Alleman's brothers (or step-brothers as the case really is). Judith is assumed to be the only child of Thomas Alleman and Judith ???, but there are three sons known to a second unknown wife. Hope this doesn't confuse things even more than they already are! Tom