<?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>2614</NoticeID><Headline>NOTICE.</Headline><NoticeDate>1852-01-30T00:00:00</NoticeDate><PublisherInfo><PublisherName>Wilmington, N.C. : Wilmington Journal</PublisherName><NewspaperName>Wilmington Journal</NewspaperName><PublisherCity>Wilmington</PublisherCity><PublisherCounty>New Hanover</PublisherCounty><PublisherState>NC</PublisherState></PublisherInfo><Transcript>NOTICE. TAKEN up and committed to the Jail of New Hanover county (as a runaway slave) on the 21st inst., a negro man, named SAMUEL DOWLER, about 33 years of age, five feet five and a half inches high, black complexion and stout built. He came here in a vessel as a seaman from Boston. He says he was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The cause of his arrest as a runaway was this: he tried to persuade a stevedore [Steve Dore?], a slave, to go off in the vessel with him, saying that that was the way he escaped from South Carolina some years ago. The slave gave information, and he was arrested as a runaway. The owner of said negro is requested to come forward, prove proverty [sic], pay charges and take him away, or he will be dealt with as the law directs. OWEN FENNELL, Sh'ff. [Sheriff] Wilmington, N. C., Jan. 29, 1852 21-tf</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>NEW</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>New Hanover</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>3</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations /><DatesOfDeparture /><People><NoticePerson><Name>Owen Fennell, Sheriff</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Samuel Dowler</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence /><CountyOfResidence>Halifax</CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>