2-832-616 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

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. A payment receipt for Mr. Edward Rouzee from Mrs. Mary Smith regarding the amount of twenty (20) dollars paid by Mrs. Smith for "services rendered to a negro woman belonging to said Rouzee." The document is signed in the bottom left corner by an agent for Mary Smith. The document is handwritten in brown ink. The paper has been folded once vertically and once horizontally.