There are lot's of books on the subject, like John Anthony Scott's 'The Ballad of America', the problem is that the notes often range from inaccurate to complete fiction. Scott gives Scots song and tune "The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie, O", but didn't know the reworked American version (1880) wasn't sung to that (Irish) tune (which he failed to recognize was a variant of the one he give for "Constitution and Guerriere").
Under "Katie Cruel" we have: "Katie Cruel" originated in New England in colonial times and has been sung there continuously from the 18th century to today.

The only version known is Rosa Allen's where she claimed (1899) that it was from revolutionary times. No other traditional versions are known.

One such book has a long history of "Yankee Doodle" that is complete fiction, saying the tune was in honor of Kitty Fisher in Cromwell's time. Kitty Fisher's brief fame as a singer was in the 1750's, a century later. And it was added that the tune was "Fisher's Jig" in a dance music collection of 1750, an outright lie. (No Yankee Doodle under any title in the collection, and no "Fisher's" anything in it, or any tunes called Jigs.)