Bill of Sale for Solomon from Nunn’s Estate to Sheppard M. Ashe
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.
Bill of Sale for Betty from George Mitchell to John Koonce
State of North Carolina
Onslow County
Know all men by these present that I, George Mitchell, have this day bargained and sold unto John Koonce a certain negro wench by the name of Betty about twenty ___ years of age for & in consideration of the sum of three hundred dollars to me the said Mitchell in hand paid the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge & myself satisfy as paid which said negro wench Betty I do hereby warrant and forever defend unto the sadi Koonce from all just claims and claims of ____ the manner of Persons whatever unto him the said Koonce his hiers and assigns forever. In witness whereof I have let my hand seal this 18th day of March 1808.
____________ before signed
George W. Mitchell
Test: Hardy Carrey
Jones Co, North Carolina – January 1814
Negro boy, Ben, age 14, sold to John Koonce by Abner Green
State of North Carolina, Jones County
Know all men by these present that I, Abner Green, have this day bargained and sold unto John Koonce a certain negro boy by the name of Ben about fourteen year of age for and in consideration of the sum of three hundred and sixty dollars to me the said Abner Green in hand paid the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge myself satisfied and paid. Which said negro boy Ben I do herby warrant and forever defend unto the said John Koonce his heirs and assigns forever in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 11th day of January 1814.Abner Green
Original paper is odd sized and folded:
North Carolina
Jones County Court February Term 1814
Then was the written Bill of Sale duly proved in open
Court by the oath of James Green and ordered to
Be recordedSignature unreadable
Registered in the Register office of Jones County
In book N no. 11 (or 14) and pages 44-48
Signature unreadable
Abner Green to John Koonce No. 24
Bill of Sale for two negroes ( Gorge and Hanah) from John Koonce to son Isaac Koonce
December 1822
State of North Carolina
Know all men by these present that I, John Koonce, hath this day given Isaac Koonce his son for tender fiction? Two negroes named Gorge and Hanah and their heirs and assigns for ______ the said negroes I warrant form me and my heirs and assigns for ever to the Isaac Koonce and his heirs and assigns for ever this 7th December 1822 as ______ my hand and seal the above date ______.
John Koonce
Test: B. Harrison
State of North Carolina
Jones County
Court of ______ and _______ __________
There was this written Bill of Sale _________ in our form of law by the oath of Benjamin Harrison the
____________ thereto let it be recorded.
Registered in the office of Jones County in the Book P No 16 page 3
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