Receipt for "the carriage of two familyes [sic] of negroes to Culpeper"
date: label: Date
content: January 1808
name: label: Owned by
content: Rouzee Family, American
notes: label: Caption
content: 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.
label: Description
content: This half size, single page, double-sided handwritten document is a payment receipt received from Apphia Rouzee, executrix of Richard Rouzee, for "the carriage of two familyes [sic] of negroes to Culpepper." The document is dated January 1808. A second note at the bottom is dated April 27, 1808. Writing on the reverse side notes the amount due was paid out as thirty (30) dollars cash in July of that year.
label: Transcription Center Status
content: Transcribed by digital volunteers
place: label: Place depicted
content: Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
label: Place made
content: Essex County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Agriculture
label: Topic
content: Business
label: Topic
content: Domestic slave trade
label: Topic
content: Finance
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Liljenquist Family Collection
label: Portfolio/Series
content: Rouzee Family Papers
label: Classification
content: Slavery and Freedom Objects
label: Classification
content: Documents and Manuscripts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Liljenquist Family
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2011.104.39
objectType: label: Type
content: financial records
label: Type
content: receipts
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: L x W: 4 x 7 1/2 in. (10.2 x 19.1 cm)