<?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>1055</NoticeID><Headline>Five pounds reward</Headline><NoticeDate>1790-10-15T00:00:00</NoticeDate><PublisherInfo><PublisherName>New Bern, N.C. : State Gazette of North Carolina</PublisherName><NewspaperName>State Gazette of North Carolina [New Bern], 1785-1790</NewspaperName><PublisherCity>New Bern</PublisherCity><PublisherCounty>Craven</PublisherCounty><PublisherState>NC</PublisherState></PublisherInfo><Transcript>FIVE POUNDS REWARD. RAN-AWAY from the subscriber, a Negro man named Peter, twenty-five years of age, about 5 feet 11 inches high, country born, stutters very much; carried off with him a sailing canoe, with two sails.  Any person securing said Negro and canoe, so that I get them again, shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable charges, of JOSEPH WALLACE. Portsmouth (N.C.) Oct. 5.</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>CRA</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Craven</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>3</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations /><DatesOfDeparture /><People><NoticePerson><Name>Joseph Wallace</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Peter</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Joseph Wallace</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence>Portsmouth</CityOfResidence><CountyOfResidence>Carteret</CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>