Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee
date: label: Date
content: September 27, 1810
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 handwritten, single page document is a sheriff of Essex account of taxes owed by Edward Rouzee for the year 1810. This account lists the taxes on "23 negroes 13 horses + 1 Coachee," as well as seven hundred and forty-eight (748) acres of land, eighteen (18) levies at sixty-two (62) cents each, and "1 Bill Essex office," and "Ditto" for Eliza M. Rouzee. At the bottom is a note that full payment of forty-three (43) dollars and eighty-eight (88) cents was received September 27, 1810.
label: Transcription Center Status
content: Transcribed by digital volunteers
place: 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: Finance
label: Topic
content: Law
label: Topic
content: Slavery
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: 2011.104.47
objectType: label: Type
content: financial records
label: Type
content: tax records
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 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (11.4 x 15.9 cm)