Tax for the year 1801. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Peleg Coffin, Esquire, treasurer and receiver-general of said commonwealth

to the selectmen or assessors of the [blank] of [blank] In obedience to a law ... These are in the name of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, to will and require yon [sic] forthwith to assess, in dollars and cents, the sum ... Given under my hand and seal, at Boston, the [blank] day of March ... one thousand eight hundred and one