<?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>2300</NoticeID><Headline>Twenty Dollars Reward</Headline><NoticeDate>1842-09-24T00:00:00</NoticeDate><PublisherInfo><PublisherName>Greensboro, N.C. : Greensborough Patriot</PublisherName><NewspaperName>Greensborough Patriot</NewspaperName><PublisherCity>Greensboro</PublisherCity><PublisherCounty>Guilford</PublisherCounty><PublisherState>NC</PublisherState></PublisherInfo><Transcript>TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.    RANAWAY from the subscriber, living in Rockingham county, N.C., on the night of the 17th inst., a negro man named ALLEN, aged about 45 years, the rise of five feet high, a bright mulatto with very black hair nearly straight, probably very well dressed, and is supposed to have gone off with a white woman, with a little white girl in company. It is suspected that they are aiming westwardly. Ten Dollars reward will be given for him if taken withing the State, or Twenty if without, or confined in any jail so that I can get him again. WILLIAM SIMPSON.    Rockingham county, N.C. Sept 20, 1842 33-6*</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>GUI</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Guilford</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>3</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations /><DatesOfDeparture><string>9/17/1842</string></DatesOfDeparture><People><NoticePerson><Name>William Simpson</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Allen</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>William Simpson</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence /><CountyOfResidence>Rockingham</CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>