<?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>3785</NoticeID><Headline>$100 Reward.</Headline><NoticeDate>1842-04-30T00:00:00</NoticeDate><PublisherInfo><PublisherName>Tarboro, N.C. : Tarboro Free Press</PublisherName><NewspaperName>Tarboro Free Press</NewspaperName><PublisherCity>Tarboro</PublisherCity><PublisherCounty>Edgecombe</PublisherCounty><PublisherState>NC</PublisherState></PublisherInfo><Transcript>$100 Reward. RAN AWAY from the Subscriber, about eighteen months since, my negro boy STEWARD, About 35 or 40 years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches in height, and dark complected. He is well known in the vicinity where I formerly resided, in Martin county, and has a wife at Roderick Purvis's, near where it is supposed he is lurking. The above reward will be paid on his delivery to Levi Howell[?], Halifax county. Should he be injured or killed in taking him, the person will not be held responsible. REUBEN S. MANNING. April 26, 1842 16</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>EDG</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Edgecombe</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>2</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations><string>Martin County (N.C.)</string></Destinations><DatesOfDeparture><string>10/1/1840</string></DatesOfDeparture><People><NoticePerson><Name>Reuben S. Manning</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Steward</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Reuben S. Manning</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence /><CountyOfResidence>Halifax</CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>