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Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee

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Rouzee Family, American

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This document is from a collection of financial papers related to the plantation operations of several generations of the Rouzee Family in Essex County, Virginia. The papers date from the 1790s through 1860.This handwritten single page, one sided document is a tax record written by Rober Hill for John Rouzee regarding the taxes on "thirty-three (33) negros, twelve (12) horses and one (1) Coachee," as well as four hundred and ninty-seven (497) acres of land, six hundred and thirty-nine (639) acres of land owned by Richard Rouzee, and twenty-four (24) levies at eighty (80) cents each. The line of the tax record is a Bill to the General Court eighteen (18) cents and nine (9) dollars. The total tax amount due is sixty-seven (67) dollars and four (4) cents. The page has been ripped at an angle across the bottom.Transcribed by digital volunteers
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Ink On Paper
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Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Liljenquist Family
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National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. African American
  2. African Americans
  3. Agriculture
  4. Business
  5. Finance
  6. Law
  7. Rouzee Family
  8. Slaver
  9. Slavery

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