Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee
date: label: Date
content: October 17, 1812
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, 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.
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
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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: 2011.104.43
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: 5 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (14.6 x 19.7 cm)