Invoice and receipt for payment by Edward Rouzee

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

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. This handwritten, single page document is an invoice regarding an overpayment of an illegible amount of money in February 1817 between Edward Rouzee and Robert Waring.

Catalog date

February 1817

Recorded places

Essex County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; Agriculture; Business; Finance; Slavery

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