<?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>1593</NoticeID><Headline>[Untitled advertisement]</Headline><NoticeDate>1796-10-15T00:00:00</NoticeDate><PublisherInfo><PublisherName>Fayetteville, N.C. :  North Carolina Minerva and Fayetteville Advertiser</PublisherName><NewspaperName>North Carolina Minerva and Fayetteville Advertiser, 1796-1799</NewspaperName><PublisherCity>Fayetteville</PublisherCity><PublisherCounty>Cumberland</PublisherCounty><PublisherState>NC</PublisherState></PublisherInfo><Transcript>RUN AWAY from the subscriber at Connoconary, in Halifax county, Negro CUFF, about twenty four years old, a short thick fellow, with a frowning countenance: had on white plains jacket and overalls, and an osnaburg shirt. He was reared in the family of Mr. Barker at Edenton, and is supposed to have bent his course that way. Whoever delivers me said negro is brought from the other side Chowan Sound, shall be paid ten dollars, or in proportion for any other distance.  MARY PONS. February 13.</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>CUM</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Cumberland</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>4</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations><string>Edenton (N.C.)</string></Destinations><DatesOfDeparture /><People><NoticePerson><Name>Mr. Barker</Name><Role>Former slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Mary Pons</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Cuff</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Mary Pons</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence /><CountyOfResidence>Halifax</CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>