Daily AncestorMoney and measures
Shillings, pence, bushels and rods in wills, inventories and deeds. Free to print and share. Full explanations: dailyancestor.com/dictionary/money-measures
- Arpent
- French land measure, about 0.85 acre
- Barrel
- Cask measure; a flour barrel held 196 pounds
- Bills of credit
- Paper money issued by a colony or state
- Bit
- One eighth of a dollar (12 1/2 cents)
- Bushel
- Dry measure of 4 pecks, for grain and potatoes
- Confederate currency
- Confederate paper money, worthless after 1865
- Continental currency
- Revolutionary War paper money of Congress
- Cord
- Stack of firewood, 128 cubic feet
- Currency
- Local colonial money, worth less than sterling
- Desperate debts
- Debts owed to an estate judged uncollectible
- Eagle
- U.S. $10 gold coin
- Ell
- Cloth measure (English ell: 45 inches)
- Farthing
- Quarter of a penny
- Firkin
- Small cask for butter or lard
- Furlong
- One eighth of a mile (660 feet)
- Gill
- Quarter of a pint (4 fluid ounces)
- Greenback
- Civil War era U.S. government paper money
- Guinea
- English gold coin worth 21 shillings
- Hand
- 4 inches, used for a horse's height
- Hogshead
- Large cask, as for tobacco (about 1,000 lb)
- Hundredweight
- 100 pounds (112 in British use), cwt.
- Labor
- Spanish farm grant of about 177 acres
- Lawful money
- New England money of account, 6 shillings a dollar
- League
- 3 miles; in Texas, a grant of about 4,428 acres
- Levy
- Pennsylvania and Virginia name for 12 1/2 cents
- Mill
- One tenth of a cent
- Note of hand
- Signed promise to pay (promissory note)
- Old tenor
- Early, depreciated New England paper money
- Peck
- Quarter of a bushel (8 dry quarts)
- Penny
- Twelfth of a shilling (d.)
- Pistole
- Spanish gold coin worth about 18 shillings
- Pound
- Money unit of 20 shillings (£)
- Proclamation money
- Colonial money at the royal rate of 6s a dollar
- Quire
- 24 or 25 sheets of paper
- Rood
- Quarter of an acre (40 square rods)
- Scrip
- Paper used in place of regular money
- Shilling
- Twentieth of a pound, equal to 12 pence
- Shinplaster
- Slang for small or nearly worthless paper money
- Spanish dollar
- Silver coin of 8 reales, model for the U.S. dollar
- Specie
- Gold or silver coin (hard money)
- Sterling
- English money at its full British value
- Tierce
- Cask of 42 gallons, between barrel and hogshead
- Tobacco money
- Tobacco used as cash, often via crop notes
- Vara
- Spanish yard, 33 1/3 inches in Texas
- York shilling
- New York name for 12 1/2 cents