<?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>1199</NoticeID><Headline>Five pounds reward</Headline><NoticeDate>1787-08-15T00:00:00</NoticeDate><PublisherInfo><PublisherName>New Bern, N.C. : North Carolina Gazette, or Impartial Intelligencer, and Weekly General Advertiser</PublisherName><NewspaperName>North Carolina Gazette, or Impartial Intelligencer, and Weekly General Advertiser [New Bern], 1783-1784</NewspaperName><PublisherCity>New Bern</PublisherCity><PublisherCounty>Craven</PublisherCounty><PublisherState>NC</PublisherState></PublisherInfo><Transcript>FIVE POUNDS REWARD. RAN away from the subscriber, in Jones County near Trenton, on the 21st of July: A Negro Wench named CLOE, aged 23 years, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, very black, her fore teeth somewhat detected[?]: Had on when she went away a home-spun Woollen Petticoat, a calico jacket, a hat covered with checker'd silk, a blue and white strip'd gown: It is likely she will change her name in order to pass for a free wench: The above reward will be given to any person who will bring her to me, or secure her so that I may get her again. JOSEPH REASONOVER. August 10, 1787.</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>CRA</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Craven</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>3</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations /><DatesOfDeparture><string>7/21/1787</string></DatesOfDeparture><People><NoticePerson><Name>Joseph Reasonover</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Cloe</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Joseph Reasonover</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence>Trenton</CityOfResidence><CountyOfResidence>Jones </CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>