<?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>623</NoticeID><Headline>Twenty dollars reward</Headline><NoticeDate>1796-02-29T00:00:00</NoticeDate><PublisherInfo><PublisherName>Halifax, N.C. : North Carolina Journal</PublisherName><NewspaperName>North Carolina Journal [Halifax], 1792-1810</NewspaperName><PublisherCity>Halifax</PublisherCity><PublisherCounty>Halifax</PublisherCounty><PublisherState>NC</PublisherState></PublisherInfo><Transcript>TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD RAN-AWAY from the subscriber on the 15th inst. a Negro man named SENECA, about five feet nine or ten inches high, about thirty years old, sensible and very talkative and of a dark complexion. He carried with him a variety of clothes some of them very good.--The above reward will be paid to any person who will deliver him to Good. Davis at Halifax or myself in Scotland Neck.   J. Drew Scotland-Neck, February 22d</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>HAL</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Halifax</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>3</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations /><DatesOfDeparture><string>2/15/1796</string></DatesOfDeparture><People><NoticePerson><Name>J. Drew</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Seneca</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>J. Drew</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence>Scotland Neck</CityOfResidence><CountyOfResidence>Halifax</CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>