<?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>1290</NoticeID><Headline>Twelve pounds reward</Headline><NoticeDate>1784-07-29T00:00:00</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>TWELVE POUNDS REWARD. RAN away from the subscriber a Negro Wench, named Fan, about twenty years of age, she is black, tall, and big with child, or has one since she went away, Six Pounds reward will be given for committing her to any goal in this State, so that the owner may have her again: The same reward will be given for securing a Negro Fellow, named Will, about forty years of age, who ran away with her, ALDERSON ELLISON. BATH, June 28th, 1784.</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>CRA</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Craven</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>4</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations /><DatesOfDeparture><string>6/28/1784</string></DatesOfDeparture><People><NoticePerson><Name>Alderson Ellison</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Fan</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Will</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Alderson Ellison</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence /><CountyOfResidence /><StateOfResidence /></notice>