<?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>1673</NoticeID><Headline>[Untitled advertisement]</Headline><NoticeDate>1816-10-25T00:00:00</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>RUNAWAY, from the Subscriber, on Friday Evening last, near Enfield Court House, a NEGRO MAN, named FRANK, pretty stout, one strait scar on his cheek passing from the under part of the ear towards the corner of the mouth, of a common dark color, something of a flat nose, a short, round chin, and a down look, about 26 or 27 years of age. Had on, brown year homespun pantaloons, stripped homespun waistcoat, and a white yarn roundabout. TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS reward will be given for lodging said runaway in any gaol in this state or TWENTY DOLLARS if any gaol out of the state. WM.[WILLIAM] W. BELL.  N.B. The foregoing slave was purchased of John Patterson, Esq.[Esquire] of Mathews county, Virginia.</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>WAK</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Wake</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>3</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations /><DatesOfDeparture /><People><NoticePerson><Name>John Patterson</Name><Role>Former slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>William W. Bell</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Frank</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>William W. Bell</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence>Enfield</CityOfResidence><CountyOfResidence>Halifax</CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>