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

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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.

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