I thought I had another reference, but it's a bit earlier --

"Captain James, who was hung and gibbeted in England, for starving to death his cabin-boy." "Nathaniel Coverly, Jun., Printer, Milk-Street, Boston." [1799?] (Early American Imprints, 1st series, no. 48896)

Come all you bold commanders,
that the raging ocean use
by my sad fate now take a warning,
your poor sailors don't abuse.

(A fairly gory and graphic tail ensues...)

Sorry, Abby, no date mentioned.

~ Becky in Tucson