It looks like a few 19th-century publications suggest a "top stack" is a term for a sort of fodder house (a temporary or permanent structure for drying or storing fodder?):
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22top+stack%22+%22fodder+house%22&hl=en&source=lnt&tbm=bks&tbas=0&biw=1920&bih=927&dpr=1
A couple of references on making a "top-stack":
https://books.google.com/books?id=1FvUAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22top%20stack%22&pg=PA111
https://books.google.com/books?id=-UEkAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22top%20stack%22&pg=PA147
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This sounds VERY plausible - how clear is the handwritten text?
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> 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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