Those conversions varied all over the place. But they originated in a system of doubling. Used to be two quarts per pottle, two pottles per gallon, and so on fr

Those conversions varied all over the place. But they originated in a system of doubling. Used to be two quarts per pottle, two pottles per gallon, and so on from there (peck, kenning, bushel, strike, coomb)