<?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>1429</NoticeID><Headline>[Untitled advertisement]</Headline><NoticeDate>1778-01-16T00:00:00</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>PITT COUNTY, Jan 10.  RAN away from the subscriber a negro man named York, about 21 years of age, well made, about 5 feet nine inches high, with a pleasent countenance, and speaks broken English. Whoever delivers the said slave to me, shall receive five dollars reward. THOMAS GOUGH.</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>CRA</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Craven</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>4</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations /><DatesOfDeparture><string>1/10/1778</string></DatesOfDeparture><People><NoticePerson><Name>Thomas Gough</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>York</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Thomas Gough</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence /><CountyOfResidence>Pitt</CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>