<?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>1082</NoticeID><Headline>[Untitled advertisement]</Headline><NoticeDate>1753-07-07T00:00:00</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>June 25, 1753  RAN away from the Subscriber, in Johnston County, about the Middle of April last, a Negroe Fellow named Sam, a well set Fellow, speaks good English, about 5 Feet 4 Inches high: He has been taken up lately, and committed to Newbern Goal[sic], from which he was delivered to Mr. John Smith, in order to be carried to his Master; but broke out of Custody of the said Smith, near the South-We[?] Bridge.  Whoever apprehends the said Slave, so that his Master may have him again, shall have Twenty Five Shillings Reward, besides what the Law allows.  John Dickson.</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>CRA</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Craven</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>0</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations /><DatesOfDeparture /><People><NoticePerson><Name>John Dickson</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Sam</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>John Dickson</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence /><CountyOfResidence>Johnston</CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>