Thank you for this link.
Pat Archer
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 9:40 PM Wilson, Donald L <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 414 issues of "The Southern Planter" are available at the Internet Archive
> https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22southern+planter%22&page=2
> William and Mary have made scanning this publication a special project.
> The journal was begun in 1841, and digitized copies go back at least to
> 1842. Its publication continued into the twentieth century.
>
> Don Wilson
>
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> Are there earlier copies of The Southern Planter? The former editor was
> my ancestor Andrew Nicol who lived in Petersburg and I believe started the
> Southern Planter. He was from Perth, Scotland. He started a model farm
> and, I believe, this publication. I would like to have a copy for my
> records. He died in 1854.
> Pat Archer
>
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:49 PM Wilson, Donald L <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Yes, and in the May 1855 issue of "The Southern Planter"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/bitstream/handle/10288/17669/southernpla
> > nterd155sout.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y
> > it says
> >
> >
> >
> > “[Green corn] is left there [standing in shocks in the field] to wilt
> > for three or four days, then taken up, if free from rain-water, and
> > laid on a top stack, or as we term it, fodder house, with both ends
> open. ..”
> >
> >
> >
> > Don Wilson
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > No, the word was not misread or miswritten.
> >
> >
> >
> > According to The Farmer. Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, the
> > Mechanic Arts and Household Economy. Elliott & Shields, Published by
> > Richmond, VA.
> >
> > Volume I: Nos. 1-12 (January- December 1866), a "top stack" refers to
> > a building used to store silage for farm animals. It is also known as
> > a fodder house, which would have been a valuable farm commodity.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *Vincent T. Brooks*
> >
> > Senior Local Records Archivist
> >
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> > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:25 PM Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]<mailto:
> > [log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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> >
> > > This sounds VERY plausible - how clear is the handwritten text?
> >
> > >
> >
> > >
> >
> > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:17 PM Wilson, Donald L <[log in to unmask]
> > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> >
> > > wrote:
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> > >
> >
> > > > I suspect the word "top stack" is misread or miswritten. Haystack
> > seems
> >
> > > > a logical word in context.
> >
> > > >
> >
> > > > Donald L. Wilson, Virginiana Librarian The Ruth E. Lloyd
> > > > Information
> >
> > > > Center for Genealogy and Local History (RELIC) Prince William
> > > > Public
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> >
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> >
> > > > Manassas, VA 20110
> >
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> >
> > > > www.pwcgov.org/library/RELIC<http://www.pwcgov.org/library/RELIC>
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> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
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> > > > From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <
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> > > > [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> On
> > Behalf Of Brooks, Vincent
> >
> > > > Sent: Friday, October 1, 2021 2:54 PM
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> > > > To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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> > > > Subject: What does it mean?
> >
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> > > > In an 1811 court document, there is reference to an enslaved man
> >
> > > > being jailed for "burning a top stack." Does anyone have any idea
> >
> > > > what "top stack" might mean in this context?
> >
> > > >
> >
> > > > I was thinking it might be an agricultural reference (like in
> >
> > > > haystack), but can find nothing conclusive.
> >
> > > >
> >
> > > > Thanks,
> >
> > > > Vince
> >
> > > >
> >
> > > >
> >
> > > > *Vincent T. Brooks*
> >
> > > > Senior Local Records Archivist
> >
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> >
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