<?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>1155</NoticeID><Headline>Five dollars reward</Headline><NoticeDate>1797-04-20T00:00:00</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>FIVE DOLLARS REWARD. RAN away from me, some weeks since, a negro wench named SABINA, well known in and about this town, and remarkable for a scar on one of her eye-lids. I will give the above reward to any one who will deliver her to me or the jaiior[sic] of the county; and I hereby forbid all persons at their peril to employ, harbour, or conceal her. She will endeavour to pass as in the service of General Smith. William Claypoole. Wilmington, April 20.</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>NEW</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>New Hanover</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>3</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations /><DatesOfDeparture /><People><NoticePerson><Name>William Claypoole</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Sabina</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>William Claypoole</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence>Wilmington</CityOfResidence><CountyOfResidence>New Hanover</CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>