Listers: The following land/deed record is taken from VOLUME 79, pp 373-4, of the "Grantor Index, 1788--1888", Allegheny Co., PA. I copied this information as I have a THOMSON ancestor who is connected to these individuals. I hope it is of help in your family searches. Regards, Marybeth Corrigall =================================================== << "James Thomson Etux William Ferree Etux and William Watson To Alexander Watson To all to whom these presents shall come James Thompson and Elizabeth Watson Thompson of the City of Pittsburgh, William Ferree and Margaret his wife (formerly Margaret Watson) of Washington County and William Watson of Peebles township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Said [?] greeting, Whereas William Watson Senior late of the City of Pittsburgh deceased in and by his last will and testamentbearing date the 20th day of November AD 1833, and duly registered in Allegheny County in Will Book Vol. 4, page 130 did among other things give and devise to his son Alexander Watson part of lot No. 185 in the City of Pittsburgh being thirty feet front on Water Street and running back eighty feet the said Alexander however to pay to his sisters Elizabeth Watson Thompson and Margaret Watson (now Margaret Ferree) the sum of Five hundred dollars each and to his brother William Watson the sum of four hundred dollars at the expiration of five years after the decease of the said William Watson Senior without interest as by reference to said Will adn the record thereof will fully appear. And Whereas the said several sums of money above mentioned with all interest for the same have been fully paid and satisfied to us by the said Alexander Watson now therefore be it known that we the above named James Thompson and Elizabeth Watson Thompson hs wife Wm Ferree and Margaret his wife and William Watson for the consideration afores and have revised released and quite claimed and by these presents do each of us for ourselves our executors and administrators revise release and forever quit claim unto the said Alexander Watson his heirs executors, administrators and assigns as well the said part of lot No 185 in the City of Pittsburgh devised to him as above mentioned ass all the said several sums of money in the said last will and testament mentioned to be payable by the said Alexander Watson to us or either of us and also all actions and causes of action accounts, reckonings, claims and demands whatsoever while we or either of us ever had not have or that we or either of us are or either of executors, administrators or assigns can or may have against the said Alexander Watson his heirs, executors, qadministrators or assigns or against athe premises [?] devised to him as aforesaid for or by reason of the said recited last will and testament or any other matter, cause of thing concerning the smae from the beginning of the ??? to the date hereof. In Witness Whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seal this the twentieth day of December A.D. eighteen hundred and forty seven. Sealed and delivered in presence of D.S. Scully (on the part of James Thompson and Elizabeth Thompson) Jas. L. Gaston James Thompson seal Elizabeth Thompson seal William Ferree seal Margaret Ferree seal Wm Watson seal City of Pittsburgh SS Before me an Alderman of said City came toe above named James Thompson and Elizabeth his wife and Wm. Watson and acknowledged the foregoing article to be their act and deed and desired the same might be recorded as such. She the said Elizabeth Thompson being of full age and the contects being fully made known to her declared that she did of her own free will and accord sign, seal and deliver the same without any compulsion or coercion from her said husband. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twentieth day of December AD 1847 DS. Scully seal Washington County SS Before me aaa\one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County came the aforesaid William Fa[e]rree and margaret his wife and acknowledged the foregoing article to their act and deed and desired the same might be recorded as such. the said Margaret being of full age and the contents being fully made known to her did declare that she did of her own free will and accord sign and seal and deliver the same without any compulsion or coercesion from her said husband. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 22d day of Dec AD 1847. Jas. S. Gaston seal Recorded December 24th" 1847." >> =================================================================