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�Sedgwick June 27th 1820 We the undersigned selectmen and assessors of the Town of Sedgwick do hereby certify that in our opinion the Estate of William Kitfield is justly and fairly appraised within at the sum of one hundred + twenty eight Dollars and fifty cents
William Jackson
Rowland Coalton
Lemuel Smith[signatures]

Hancock ww June 27 1820 Then the said William Jackson Rowland Coalton + Lemuel Smith personally appeared and made solemn oath that according to their best knowledge + belief the Taxable property is fairly + justly appraised and from the representation made to them they have reason to believe the residue thereof is also justly appraised.
Before me
Moses I. Judkins 

[written sideways] William Kitfield No. 13.546

I William Kitfield being of feeble constitution and disabled by a Rupture in the abdomen cannot perform any hand labour without breaking some internal blood vessels and causing large quantities of blood to pass off by the intestinal canal producing faintness and direct debility. My wife also being weak and feeble in her constitution is unable to labour much for her support. With all the Industry and Economy I am capable of practising I have for a series of years been constantly reducing my property until necessity has compelled me by hiring Labour to Mortgage the remnant of my property containing by estimation fifty acres only about six of which is capable of cultivation and that a cold stiff clayey soil the residue is chiefly Ledge and barren swamp. This property cost me about one hundred + seventeen Dollars Eighty cents. The equity of Redemption may I suppose be fairly estimated at Fifty Dollars. But for this purpose I have no means and unless the bounty of my Country is continued to me no prospect of ever redeeming the same as my summer is past and my harvest nearly ended
William Kitfield[signature]