Citation - Rivington's New York Gazette: 1774.01.13

RNYG.774.003
13 Jan 1774:24 (39)
On the late untoward anti-matrimonial manoeuvre on Long-
Island.
  'Tis odd, the erring vulgar say,
  That things have so miscarried;
  John hang'd himself the very day
  He was to have been married.
  . . . [12 more lines by K.C.N.W. Jan. 10, 1774.]