<?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>1716</NoticeID><Headline>Five dollars reward</Headline><NoticeDate>1778-01-16T00:00:00</NoticeDate><PublisherInfo><PublisherName>New Bern, N.C. : North Carolina Gazette</PublisherName><NewspaperName>North Carolina Gazette [New Bern], 1768-1778</NewspaperName><PublisherCity>New Bern</PublisherCity><PublisherCounty>Craven</PublisherCounty><PublisherState>NC</PublisherState></PublisherInfo><Transcript>SPRINGFIELD, Jan. 10. FIVE DOLLARS reward.  Run away from the subscriber on sunday night, the 28th instnat, a negro women named Carolina, the property of Robert Calf a minor, is supposed to be harboured by the negroes of Col. John Pattern in Beaufort County. Whowever takes up and brings to me the said slave at Springfield four miles about Newbern, shall receive the above reward and reasonable charges paid. ISSAC PATRIDGE.</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>CRA</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Craven</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>4</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations><string>Beaufort County (N.C.)</string></Destinations><DatesOfDeparture><string>12/28/1777</string></DatesOfDeparture><People><NoticePerson><Name>Isaac Patridge</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Carolina</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Robert Calf</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence>Springfield</CityOfResidence><CountyOfResidence /><StateOfResidence /></notice>