<?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>1086</NoticeID><Headline>Forty dollars reward</Headline><NoticeDate>1778-07-31T00:00:00</NoticeDate><PublisherInfo><PublisherName>New Bern, N.C. : North Carolina Gazette</PublisherName><NewspaperName>North Carolina Gazette [New Bern], 1768-1778</NewspaperName><PublisherCity>New Bern</PublisherCity><PublisherCounty>Craven</PublisherCounty><PublisherState>NC</PublisherState></PublisherInfo><Transcript>FORTY DOLLARS REWARD. RUN away from the subscriber the last of June, a negro girl named Suck, of a low size, looks and talks like a new negro, she lately belonged to Doctor Lenox, has a husband over the creek at Mr. Johnthon's , named Borton, and suppose she stays in the woods between the creek and the planation of her late master's. Whoever takes up the said girl shall have the above reward, and charges paid. Edenton, July 21. BAJIEU LAPORTRE.</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>CRA</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Craven</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>4</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations /><DatesOfDeparture><string>6/30/1778</string></DatesOfDeparture><People><NoticePerson><Name>Doctor Lenox</Name><Role>Former slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Bajieu Laporte</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Suck</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Bajieu Laporte</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence>Edenton</CityOfResidence><CountyOfResidence>Chowan</CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>