<?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>1004</NoticeID><Headline>Five dollars reward</Headline><NoticeDate>1795-09-24T00:00:00</NoticeDate><PublisherInfo><PublisherName>Wilmington, N.C. : Wilmington Chronicle, and North Carolina Weekly Advertiser</PublisherName><NewspaperName>Wilmington Chronicle, and North Carolina Weekly Advertiser, 1795-1796</NewspaperName><PublisherCity>Wilmington</PublisherCity><PublisherCounty>New Hanover</PublisherCounty><PublisherState>NC</PublisherState></PublisherInfo><Transcript>FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.     RAN-AWAY, about six weeks since, from the subscriber, at the Sound, a Negro, named BEN; well known in and about the neighbourhood of Wilmington. He is about nineteen or twenty years of age; five feet four or five inches high; stout and well made.--The above reward will be paid to any person or persons delivering the above named Negro at my house on the Sound, or secruing him in Wilmington goal. --Suspicions having arisen that he has been harboured by some evil-disposed person, whoever shall be found guilty thereof, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.   PETER MAXWELL. Sept. 23, 1795.</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>NEW</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>New Hanover</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>3</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations /><DatesOfDeparture /><People><NoticePerson><Name>Peter Maxwell</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Ben</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Peter Maxwell</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence /><CountyOfResidence /><StateOfResidence /></notice>