The following horrid transaction occurred, last Thursday week, at Hurley, a few miles below Esopus:--Col. Cornelius D. Wynkoop, of that place, hearing a disturbance in his kitchen, amongst his negroes, requested his son to know the cause and put a stop to it; his son accordingly went and made use of some harsh treatment to the one he thought most in fault, who immediately ran out of the house, took up an axe, and bid defiance to any one that should dare to approach him. The col. then went to the door himself, to repremand him for his villanous conduct--when the negro made at him with the axe, and sunk it in his head in such a shocking manner as put an immediate period to his existence. The negro then made off, but soon after returned and asked a fellow-servant if his master was dead: being answered in the affirmative, he again ran off, and we do not learn of his having been since heard of.

Source:

Unknown, Catskill Packet, Catskill-Landing, N.Y., Mackay Croswell & Co., Monday, 10 December 1792, p. 3, c. 2.