<?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>1255</NoticeID><Headline>Ten pounds reward</Headline><NoticeDate>1793-03-23T00:00:00</NoticeDate><PublisherInfo><PublisherName>New Bern, N.C. : North Carolina Gazette, or Impartial Intelligencer, and Weekly General Advertiser</PublisherName><NewspaperName>North Carolina Gazette, or Impartial Intelligencer, and Weekly General Advertiser [New Bern], 1783-1784</NewspaperName><PublisherCity>New Bern</PublisherCity><PublisherCounty>Craven</PublisherCounty><PublisherState>NC</PublisherState></PublisherInfo><Transcript>TEN POUNDS REWARD. RAN away from the subscriber, about the first of May, a Negro man named PETER, about five feet nine inches high, 26 years of age, speaks good English, likely, well fed, and very black; he is also artful and sensible, and it is supposed  will endeavour to pass for a free man. Any person that will secure said Negro in Newbern Jail or deliver him to Mr. William Bush, shall receive the above reward. DAVID BLACKSHEAR. March 2.</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>CRA</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Craven</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>4</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations /><DatesOfDeparture><string>5/1/1793</string></DatesOfDeparture><People><NoticePerson><Name>David Blackshear</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Peter</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>David Blackshear</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence /><CountyOfResidence /><StateOfResidence /></notice>