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From: "Charles Aiken" <>
Subject: Re: [NCBLADEN-L] Mechanic 1850
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:49:05 -0500
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All of you are correct. Later on during modern times, tobacco allotments
were measured off with chains.




Penny

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese proverb

----- Original Message -----
From: "Allen Johannes" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [NCBLADEN-L] Mechanic 1850


> Then there were the "SCC" - Sworn Chain Carriers. Betty's 4th great
> grandfather was listed as one about 1763 in Orange County, NC before
coming
> to Bladen Co.
> Allen
> Betty & Allen Johannes
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J. D. Bedsole" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 1:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [NCBLADEN-L] Mechanic 1850
>
>
> > Right you are Jerome. "Chain Bearers" carried and stretched the chain
> > between two points and so many chains were so much distance. Poles and
> Links
> > were other sub-units of measurement smaller than a
> > "Chain"....Thanks...............JD
> >
>
>

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