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

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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.

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