Anyone doing land records may wonder what the strange measurements are: 1 pole = 16.5 ft 4 poles=1 chain 1 chain=66 ft 10 sq. chains= 1 acre 80 chains= 1 mile 10 chains= 1 furlong 1 furlong=660 ft How did a furlong come to existence? It was supposedly the distance a horse could pull a plow before needing a rest. Letters of the alphabet can be misread in many documents; thereby giving us some strange names we have never heard of. I have found several records of my ancestors which were transcribed incorrectly making them difficult to locate. One such example is Samuel being mistakenly transcribed as Lemuel. And of course we all know the name of Pace has taken many different missreadings/spellings. John Pace