Invoice and receipt for room and board of Sarah and Harriet Rouzee and "servant"
date: label: Date
content: October 1829
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 document is an invoice and receipt of payment for room and board of Miss Sarah and Mrs Harriet Rouzee by Mary R. Carter. The document lists board from the 12th of September to the 18th of September, 1829 at one (1) dollar a day. It also includes board for the 22nd of September, 1829 to the 1st of October, 1829. The document itemizes meals, listing the date, the type of meal had and for whom, and the amount in the right column, starting with "Dinner for Servant + Supper" on the 18th and ending with "Dinner for self + Servant" on the 1st. The total amount due to Carter by the Rouzees' was forty-four (44) dollars and thirty-seven (37) cents. The document is signed at the bottom by Charles Carter for Mary R. Carter. The document is handwritten in black ink, one page, single-sided. At the bottom right corner there are multiple ink spots that have bled through from the reverse. On the reverse is written "M. Mary Carter bill $44.37 Oct 1 1809." The date is partially obscured by ink spots. The page in unevenly torn at the bottom and has been folded once vertically and once horizontally.
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: Slavery
label: Topic
content: Travel
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: 2011.104.37
objectType: label: Type
content: financial records
label: Type
content: invoices
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: 7 3/4 x 7 in. (19.7 x 17.8 cm)