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

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This handwritten, single page document is a tax account and payment receipt written up by Robert Hill for the estate of John Rouzee for the year 1816. This list of property taxed includes "26 neg. 10 Ho. + 4 wheel car." as well as four hundred and ninty-seven (497) acres of land and twenty (20) levies at one (1) dollar and fifty (50) cents each. The total amount of taxes due was seventy-four (74) dollars and five (5) cents. At the bottom is a note dated October 19, 1816 that payment was received in full from Edward Rouzee. It is signed in the bottom right by Robert Hill. On the reverse is written "Robt. Hill's acct." with notes about the amount and date received.

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