<?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>1495</NoticeID><Headline>[Untitled advertisement]</Headline><NoticeDate>1808-09-26T00:00:00</NoticeDate><PublisherInfo><PublisherName>Halifax, N.C. : North Carolina Journal</PublisherName><NewspaperName>North Carolina Journal [Halifax], 1792-1810</NewspaperName><PublisherCity>Halifax</PublisherCity><PublisherCounty>Halifax</PublisherCounty><PublisherState>NC</PublisherState></PublisherInfo><Transcript>RAN-AWAY from the subscriber living in the lower part of Halifax county, on the first of June, a Negro Woman by the name of PLEASANT, about five feet four or five inches high, about thirty years of age, talks fast, of a yellow complexion.  Any persons giving me information of her shall be well rewarded. Wilson Liscomb. August 22    73</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>HAL</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Halifax</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>3</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations /><DatesOfDeparture><string>6/1/1808</string></DatesOfDeparture><People><NoticePerson><Name>Wilson Liscomb</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Pleasant</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Wilson Liscomb</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence /><CountyOfResidence>Halifax</CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>