<?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>35</NoticeID><Headline>Ran away</Headline><NoticeDate>1803-04-04T00:00:00</NoticeDate><PublisherInfo><PublisherName>Raleigh, N.C. : Raleigh Register and North Carolina Weekly Advertiser</PublisherName><NewspaperName>Raleigh Register and North Carolina Weekly Advertiser, 1799-1840</NewspaperName><PublisherCity>Raleigh</PublisherCity><PublisherCounty>Wake</PublisherCounty><PublisherState>NC</PublisherState></PublisherInfo><Transcript>RAN AWAY, ABOUT the 20th of last January, from the Subscriber, living in Wake County, 7 Miles east of the Falls of Neuse, a Mulatto Man named Isham, 19 Years old, very well grown, whose Parents live with Philip Alston, of Warren, where it is likely he is lurking.  A generous Reward will be given for said Mulatto Man, if delivered to me, or secured in Jail, so that I get him again. THOMAS ALSTON. Wake County, April 1, 1803.</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>WAK</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Wake</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>3</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations><string>Warren County (N.C.)</string></Destinations><DatesOfDeparture><string>1/20/1803</string></DatesOfDeparture><People><NoticePerson><Name>Thomas Alston</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Isham</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Thomas Alston</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence /><CountyOfResidence>Wake</CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>