<?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>1402</NoticeID><Headline>100 dollars reward</Headline><NoticeDate>1814-09-09T00:00:00</NoticeDate><PublisherInfo><PublisherName>Raleigh, N.C. :  North Carolina Minerva and Raleigh Advertiser</PublisherName><NewspaperName>North Carolina Minerva and Raleigh Advertiser, 1799-1821</NewspaperName><PublisherCity>Raleigh</PublisherCity><PublisherCounty>Wake</PublisherCounty><PublisherState>NC</PublisherState></PublisherInfo><Transcript>100 Dollars Reward. RUN-AWAY or Stolen from the Subscriber on Sunday night last, a Mulatto Girl named EDAH, about 20 years of age, very light complexion, modest pretty countenance, red cheeks, and a remarkable handsome figure. A further description of her is deemed unnecessary, as she is well known by many gentlemen both in the Northern and Southern States, who have put up at my house; she having attended as a house servant for many years past. I have some reason to believe that she has been enticed off by some person, as [illegible] the treatment she received she never would have absconded without some great inducement, having always been used more like a free person than a slave. I will give the above reward if apprehended without the State or 50 dollars if taken within and delivered to me, or secured so that I get her again . JAMES WOOD. Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C. August 23d, 8114 [1814]  61--4w</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>WAK</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Wake</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>4</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations /><DatesOfDeparture /><People><NoticePerson><Name>James Wood</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Edah</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>James Wood</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence>Hertford</CityOfResidence><CountyOfResidence>Perquimans</CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>