Carolyn: You amaze me with your vast knowledge in what we do here. I assumed that when it was mentioned it represented, hide as120 acres, as we know it, that it was maybe brought over the pond in early times so to speak as a unit of measure that they would know. I stand corrected and the humor it brought to the list I thought refreshing. I am very far behind an anything of your list as I am still racking my brain for my ggg grandfathers parents and even tho the DAR has him marked as a veteran I can't get a handle on records for him as yet. Three ladies with the organization has looked and with no luck. They get the name but living and death times and places have been all wrong. So then we have to return to square one again. School will be out soon and I will have all summer to work on him. When I read all that you have accomplished with your research I then get lifted up and a renewed hope that I to will surmount my brick wall. Yours in the love of our hobby of genealogy............................Beej In a message dated 5/25/02 3:00:26 AM US Mountain Standard Time, AMXROADS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << As far as I know, neither bald cows, nor hides as a land measure were present in the American colonies. But the term hides was the most ancient term of English land measurement, coming from the native Angles and the Saxon invaders, and being prominently used in feudal arrangements and exchanges. It was not a measurement in the sense we think of as so many acres, so much as it was a measurement of a holding, originally with the Lord of the Manor and his tenants, and later, for tax purposes. >>