<?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>1071</NoticeID><Headline>Forty shillings reward</Headline><NoticeDate>1797-06-08T00:00:00</NoticeDate><PublisherInfo><PublisherName>Wilmington, N.C. : Hall's Wilmington Gazette</PublisherName><NewspaperName>Hall's Wilmington Gazette, 1797-1798</NewspaperName><PublisherCity>Wilmington</PublisherCity><PublisherCounty>New Hanover</PublisherCounty><PublisherState>NC</PublisherState></PublisherInfo><Transcript>Forty Shillings Reward. Ran away from the subscriber, a negro fellow named ALICK, about 20 years of age--he is a stout likely fellow, and has for some time past, as I am informed, been lurking about the plantation of Mr. John Hill, to whom his mother belongs. SAMUEL VANCE. June. 8 tf</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>NEW</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>New Hanover</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>3</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations><string>Edgefield (S.C.)</string></Destinations><DatesOfDeparture /><People><NoticePerson><Name>Samuel Vance</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Alick</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Sameul Vance</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence /><CountyOfResidence /><StateOfResidence /></notice>