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

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This handwritten, single page document is a tax account for Edward Rouzee to the sheriff of Essex County dated October 1, 1828. It lists the taxes owed on "18 slaves, 13 horses + 1 Gig, 18 county and poor levies, 798 1/4 acres of land" and money owed the clerk of Essex. The amounts due are recorded in a column on the right side and totaled at $45.44.

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