This is a bit novel. I'm reading the field notes of a land grant for about 16,000 acres of land that was made in 1827 by the government of Coahuila and Texas in what is now the State of Texas.
The field notes run to a corner described as follows:
"dos mil y quinientos varas hasta una estaca donde se formÌ? mojonera con un Pino de seis pulgadas de grueso rumbo al oriente de la estaca 50 eslabones con otro Pino de 24 pulgadas rumbo al Norte 100 eslabones"
which translates as:
"two thousand five hundred varas to a stake where a monument was made with a Pine 6 inches dia. bearing East of the stake 50 links with another Pine 24 inches bearing North 100 links".
It looks as if the survey was made with a standard 66-ft chain of 100 links and then converted to varas, but the measurements to the bearing trees were reported to the nearest 10 links.
I seem to remember from my 3rd grade Texas history that "Coahuila and Texas" was one of the constituent states of the newly independent United Mexican States under their 1824 Constitution, and included Texas, Coahuila and Nuevo LeÌ?n. Later in the same year Nuevo LeÌ?n was detached, but Texas remained a part of the state until 1835, when it seceded to form the Republic of Texas. Monclova was the capital of the state from 1833 to 1835.
Mike Berry, post: 361894, member: 123 wrote: I seem to remember from my 3rd grade Texas history [...]
I'm going to guess that you probably have been handicapped by the fact that your 3rd grade history teacher failed to subscribe to Wikipedia:
