Here are more references to "Sally Brown." I hope I'm not repeating anything John and Gibb have already discovered.

1897 W. Carlton Dawe, "Kakemonos: Tales of the Far East" (London: John Lane) p.87.

1900 J. E. Patterson, "Sailors' Work Songs," New York Daily Tribune (September 9), p. 10.

1905 Henry C. Lahee, "Sailors' Chanties," The Sea Breeze (Boston), Jan., pp. 13-14.

1909-1910 Basil Lubbock, "Deep Sea Warriors" (N.Y.: Dodd, Mead), pp. 179-181.

1917 W. S. Birge, "The Chantey Man's Songs," The National Magazine, XLVI, p. 284.

1922 Joseph C. Lincoln, "Fair Harbor" (N.Y.: D. Appleton), p. 68. (Refers to 1880s.)

1935 A. E. Dingle, "Pipe All Hands!" (London: Harrap), p. 104.

1939 Capt. Leighton Robinson, rec. for L. of C. by S. R. Cowell (I posted this on another thread a few years ago.)