Received of Isaac Koonce five hundred and thirty one dollars for boy Solomon purchased from Nunn’s estate & I am to give a bill of sale for ____ boy.

January 6, 1840                           Sheppard M. Ashe

Solomon Koonce was born in 1826 and died in 1928. He was approximately 14 yrs old at the time of this sale.

The amount of $531 would be equivalent to $10,218 today.