<?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>751</NoticeID><Headline>A Negro girl</Headline><NoticeDate>1802-08-17T00:00:00</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>A NEGRO GIRL RAN away from the Subscriber, living near Granville Court-House, on the 18th July last, a Negro Girl by the name of Eady, about 17 years old, five feet five or six inches high, has  a scar on her left hand between the thumb and fore finger, caused by a burn; she has lost one of her under foreteeth. I purchased her of John Wills and Copeland Whitefield, of Isle of White, Virginia. Any person securing said Girl so that I may get her again will receive if the county, a reward of Five Dollars, and if out of the county, Ten Dollars, and all reasonable expences. DENNIS DRISKELL. Granville, N.C. August 12.</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>WAK</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Wake</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>3</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations /><DatesOfDeparture><string>7/18/1802</string></DatesOfDeparture><People><NoticePerson><Name>John Willis</Name><Role>Former slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Dennis Driskell</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Eady</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Dennis Driskell</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence /><CountyOfResidence>Granville</CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>