This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WUB.2ACI/1323 Message Board Post: In Queens Co. land deeds from the 1820's some of the property is being measured in 'chains and links'. I'm sure it was a standardized measurement back then, but I'm curious if anyone knows what a chain and/or link would equal in todays measure? Also, was there a particular person in the Town who would have been responsible for measuring and recording a persons land boundries? Thanks, Janet Wood