<?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>34</NoticeID><Headline>Ran away</Headline><NoticeDate>1797-08-27T00:00:00</NoticeDate><PublisherInfo><PublisherName>Wilmington, N.C. : Hall's Wilmington Gazette</PublisherName><NewspaperName>Hall's Wilmington Gazette, 1797-1798</NewspaperName><PublisherCity>Wilmington</PublisherCity><PublisherCounty>New Hanover</PublisherCounty><PublisherState>NC</PublisherState></PublisherInfo><Transcript>RAN AWAY, A MUSTEE fellow named JOSH, the property of Craik's estate, well known in town as a fidler, and much marked with the small pox.----ALSO, A Wench, named HANNAH, the droperty[sic] of Clayton's estate, who has two children with her, and was hired this year by Richard Quince, Esq. :-- FIVE DOLLARS REWARD will be paid for the lodging either of them in the town goal, or on the subscriber's plantation. JAMES CARSON. Clarendon, 8th August, 1797. 33 3.</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>NEW</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>New Hanover</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>3</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations /><DatesOfDeparture /><People><NoticePerson><Name>James Carson</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Josh</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Hannah</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Clayton</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Craik</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence>Clarendon</CityOfResidence><CountyOfResidence>Brunswick</CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>