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Thread #126347   Message #2862168
Posted By: John Minear
11-Mar-10 - 06:11 PM
Thread Name: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Subject: RE: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
"Sally Brown"   Part 6

And now, I want to look back over this information with an eye to geographical spread. Some of these references are very specific and some are more than a bit vague. In most cases it is impossible to know where a particular person heard "Sally Brown". All we know is that the person was in various places and at some point or points sang or heard the song.

Geographical Usage

{1808-?} Mr. Wallack , off the French coast
{1830} Curtis, Moses A., "Sally Was A Fine Girl", Cape Fear River, North Carolina
{April, 1837} Marryat, Capt. C.B., Portsmouth, England, on Western Ocean packet to New York
{Sept. 11, 1842} Baker, Isaac, "The Tasker is the thing to roll", a whaler
{1859-60} Robinson, Capt. John
{1861-1872} Whall, 1909-1910 East Indiamen
{1863} J.S. Scott, London, England,
{1864} James Wright, Leith, England
{late 1865 (Lighter, 2/26)} Adams, Robert Chamblet, [as "Blow, My Bully Boys, Blow"] from Boston to the E. Indies by way of    Richmond, VA, also Maryland to Denmark - voyages on two different ships. Specifically hears "Walk along, my Sally Brown" in Genoa, Italy as Virginia tobacco is being unloaded (p. 102)

{1867-1885} Jack Murray, Aberdeen, Scotland
{late 1860's (Lighter 2/1)} Harding, West Indies, British, American and Blue Nose (Nova Scotia) ships
        & perhaps Tobago Smith, West Indies
{1868} Captain Edward B. Trumbull, Salem, MA
{1869} Robert Yeoman, Dundee, Scotland
{1869} Richard Maitland, Atlantic, San Francisco, Blackball Line to Liverpool, Hong Kong, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Scotland

{1869-1880} Bullen, [ weighing anchor & flywheel pumps] Bournemouth, England; West Indies, Gulf of Mexico ports
{1870s} "Old Man Cuffee" who died at age 82 in 1938, a whaler, from Sag Harbor, NY        
{1870s} George Pattison/capstan & Malcolm Forbes - "old men" in 1924-25, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
{1872} James Henderson, whaler - Dundee, Scotland
{March 19, 1875} Harlow, [capstan], from Boston to Melbourne and Sydney, Java, and back to NY
Luce, 1883/89(1902) [topsail halyards]
{1883} Thomas Ginovan, Bristol, England
{1884} John Mason, [anchor capstan] San Francisco, CA
{1885} Capt. Patrick Tayluer, from Boston, throughout the British Empire, Africa
{1885-1902} Alex Henderson, Dundee, Scotland
{1888-1889} George Simpson, Dundee, Scotland
{1889-1901} Colcord, [windless and capstan] Portland (ME)-Buenos Aires-Rosario- Boston, New York-Penang-Singapore-Shanghai-Hong Kong-New York; Portland (ME)-Buenos Aires-Rosario-Boston, New York-Port Elizabeth-Durban-Newcastle(NSW)-Mollendo-Astoria-Portland(OR)-Santa Rosalia-Victoria(BC)-Tacoma, New York-Hong Kong-New York

{1891-95} Masefield, [halliards]
{1902} King, Stanton Henry, [windlass] Philadelphia, on the Delaware River, outward bound to Japan
{1908} Benjamin Bright
{October, 1914} Hurley, Frank & Shane Murphy, Shackleford Expedition to Antartica        
Sharp, 1914 Charles Robbins, London, [pulling-chantey]
        Mr. Allison of Perth
        Short of Watchet
{1915} Shay, [capstan], off the coast of Yucatan (?)
Terry, 1921 [windless and capstan]
{1922-1945} Hugill [hauling, capstan], Liverpool, England; Cape Horn, West Indies, Cape Verde Island
A.E. Foster, Sailors Snug Harbor, Staten Island, N.Y., 1927
Francis Herreschoff, Marblehead, MA, 1927
Stanton King, Boston, MA, 1928 (from Carpenter)
David Burrell, Scotland [capstan]
{1929} Capt. John Gullage of Newfoundland
{1960's} Abrahams, 1974 ["Feeny Brown"] Tobago/St. Kitts

Does anyone have geographical information on the following:

Captain Robinson
Admiral Luce
John Masefield

And is there a coherent account anywhere of Hugill's travels? Please feel very free to make corrections on any of this and to add to it as you've been doing.