<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><notice xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><NoticeID>1</NoticeID><Headline>[Untitled advertisement]</Headline><NoticeDate>1827-02-03T00:00:00</NoticeDate><PublisherInfo><PublisherName>Halifax, N.C. : Free Press</PublisherName><NewspaperName>Free Press [Halifax and Tarboro], 1824-1835</NewspaperName><PublisherCity>Halifax</PublisherCity><PublisherCounty>Halifax</PublisherCounty><PublisherState>NC</PublisherState></PublisherInfo><Transcript>Runaways, MOSES, NAT &amp;amp; HARRIS. FIFTY DOLLARS Reward for Moses, TWENTY-FIVE Dollars each for Nat and Harris. Said negroes ran away about the 15th instant, and are supposed to be lurking in Occoniechy[sic] Neck. Moses has a wife at Wm. [William] Long's plantation in Northampton county, four or five miles from Halifax town. I am somewhat of opinion that they have gone to Southampton county, Va. they have some near relations belonging to the Mr. Ricks', in Southampton. I am confident that Moses enticed Nat and Harris off. Moses is about 27 years old, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high--Nat is 21 years old, and Harris 17 years old--all of them near one height and one weight, that is, about 140 or 150. They are brothers, and of a bright complexion for negroes--no mark that I can recollect. ISAAC RICKS. Halifax county, Jan. 27, 1827.</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>HAL</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Halifax</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>3</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations><string>Southampton County (Va.)</string></Destinations><DatesOfDeparture><string>1/27/1827</string></DatesOfDeparture><People><NoticePerson><Name>Isaac Ricks</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Moses</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Nat</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Harris</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Isaac Ricks</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence /><CountyOfResidence>Halifax</CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>