in the upper story

After the dam breach, the family piled into a boat to get to safety in the upper story of a neighbor’s three-story home.

The enslaved man had been placed in a cell “only six or eight feet square, in the upper story of the jail, which was only accessible through a trap door” and overrun by vermin, Charles Stevens wrote in an 1856 biography based on Burns’ accounts.

It, too, was built by General Tweedy, out of hand-hewed logs and hand-sawed and hand-planed boards, and had portholes in the upper story for shooting Indians.

A structure the Smiths refer to as the Apple House is believed to have been used as a tenant or camp house for migrant workers on the farm in the upper story and a cellar on the ground floor.

In the upper story could be seen one room, with a small window at the end, with iron bars crossing sufficiently near together to keep a prisoner from getting through, if he was somewhat corpulent; but most rogues and poor men, that were not very stout, could, if so disposed, have found a way out with a little hard squeezing.