SO 15 years later ! I just wanted to thank Becky in Tucson for all her really cool research above .. I like her educated guess that the tune Might have been written but a Scotsman on the Bristish side for the Battle of Brooklyn .. If you look at the portrate of Washington crossing the Deleware ..The man in charge of the Boats was the same then General John Glover who organized the Marblhead fisherman to man the boats at Brooklyn .. He was my Great GGG Whatever Grand Uncle.. His twin brother was Johnathan Glover my GGGG Grand father .. ( John & Johnathan; no confusion there ) . The two brothers gave the first boat to the American Navy named the Hanna .. (Also a family story )