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]> wrote:
> I suspect the word "top stack" is misread or miswritten. Haystack seems
> a logical word in context.
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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?
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> I was thinking it might be an agricultural reference (like in haystack),
> but can find nothing conclusive.
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> Thanks,
> Vince
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