Thanks Ned!  I've forwarded your reply to the listserver for the Brigade
of the American Revolution(BAR) from whence this inquiry orginated!
 
VivianLea Stevens
 
Ned Heite wrote:
>
> "Anchors" probably are ankers. This traditional liquid measure was about
> eight English gallons.  The Bremen anker was 7.97 English gallons. The
> Danish anker was 8.29 English gallons.
>
> For archaic measurements see Ronald Edward Zupko, _British Weights &
> Measures: A history from antiquity to the seventeenth century_, University
> of Wisconsin Press 1977.
>
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