Bristol, April 2. Last Saturday Wm. Brown a Journeyman Woolcomber at Wells, cut his throat and soon expired.----The evening before, the father of a young woman that he courted, forbade him his house: enraged at this treatment, he went to the Serjeant of a Regiment that lies in that City to enlist; they sat up very late, and it was then agreed for them to sleep together. The Serjeant got up early in the morning to write a letter, and left his penknife on the table, with which this young man committed the rash deed. The young woman he courted is almost distracted, and his parents are inconsolable.
~ Virginia Gazette, 09-Jun-1774, Page 4, Column 2
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