I have tried to round up and organize in a chronological order the songs and sources we have been collecting so far on this thread. I will put this up in two parts: Part I 1800-1855, and Part II 1855-1870. I haven't gone beyond 1870 at this point, even though I know some of our materials reflect this later period. I am still primarily interested in the early 1850's. These {dates} are roughly the historical dates of the event being recorded and are the organizing dates for this list.

[I long ago learned the importance of "reading the footnotes". Please don't hesitate to do your own double-checking on any or all of this information. I take full responsibility for any mistakes in this post and welcome corrections - jm]

Part I 1800-1855

{1811} LANDSMAN HAY. The memoirs of Robert Hay, 1789-1847 By Robert Hay (of Paisley.), Jamaica, stevedore apparently working at capstan

"Grog Time Of Day"
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{possibly as early as 1822 or earlier} WEST INDIA SKETCH BOOK, Volume 1, Trelawney Wentworth (Published 1834 or earlier? and referring to events possibly as early as 1822 or earlier)

"Fine Time of Day"
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{1826} HORACE IN NEW YORK, Isaac Starr Clason,

"Sally Brown, oh, ho" (Mr. Wallack) [performance]
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{circa 1826} WALDIE'S SELECT CIRCULATING LIBRARY, Volume 1 (12 March 1833), Italian visitor to London, in a pub

"Haul way, yeo ho, boys!"
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{circa 1829} Sold wholesale by L. Deming, No. 62, Hanover Street 2d door from Friend Street, Boston, minstrel version

" Coal Black Rose"
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{1830} THE WATERMAN'S SONG, David S. Cecelski, 2001, collected by Moses Curtis, on the Cape Fear River, NC

" Sally was a fine girl, ho!" / "Sally Brown" [rowing]
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{1832} THE QUID, on a voyage to the Orient on an East India Company ship

"Pull Away now, my Nancy, O!"
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{1833} SERVICE AFLOAT, appears to describe observations from during Napoleanic Wars, so 1815 or earlier), Antigua,

"Hurra, my jolly boys, grog time a day" [rowing]
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{Dec. 24,1833} WALDIE'S SELECT CIRCULATING LIBRARY II

"'Tis grog time o' day!"   [WI canoe rowing song]
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{1836} "Tar Brush Sketches", Benjamin Fiferail, in CORRECTED PROOFS, H Hastings Weld

" Grog time o' day"
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{1834-36} TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, Richard Henry Dana, 1840 edition, and John Kemble's 1964 edition

"Grog Time a Day"
"Heave, to the girls!"
"Nancy oh!"
"Jack Crosstree"
"Cheerly, men"
"Heave round hearty!"
"Captain gone ashore!"
"Dandy ship and a dandy crew"
"Time for us to go!"
"Round the corner, Sally"
"Tally high ho! you know"
"Hurrah! hurrah! my hearty bullies!"
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{26 Dec. 1834} TELEMACHUS, OR, THE ISLAND OF CALYPSO, 1850, James Robinson Planché, Charles Dance

" Grog time of day, boys"
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{Tuesday, the 22nd of September, 1835} VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, W.S.W. Ruschenberger, M.D.,"When she moved more easily, those at the capstan sang, to the tune of "The Highland Laddie,"

"The Highland Laddie"
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{April, 1837} A DIARY IN AMERICA, VOL. 1, 1839, Capt. C.B. Marryat, , Portsmouth, England, on Western Ocean packet to New York

"Sally Brown" [capstan]
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{1838} LETTERS FROM ALABAMA, Phillip Gosse (1859)

"Fire the ringo, fire away"
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{1839} BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY vol 4, New York, Sept. 1839

"The Stoker's Chant" / "Fire Down Below" [riverboat fireman]
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{1839} BURTON'S GENTLEMEN'S MAGAZINE

"Fire! Down Below"
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{February 11,1840} INCIDENTS OF A WHALING VOYAGE(1841) Frederick Law Olmsted

"Drunken Sailor"
"Nancy Farana"/ "Haul 'er Away!" / "Hill 'n Gully Rider"/ "Sally                 Rackett"
"O, Hurrah, My Hearties, O"
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{1841} THE ART OF BALLET (1915) An anecdote about two sister Austrian ballet dancers touring America in 1841.

"Grog time o' day"
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{Sept. 11, 1842} Isaac Baker's diary aboard whaleship "Taskar" RITES AND PASSAGES, Margaret S. Creighton, (1995)

"The Taskar is the thing to roll" / "Sally Brown"
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{circa 1844} Lowe, on the London docks

"Roll and go for that white pitcher, roll and go"
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{1845, maybe} TWENTY YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, Charles Erskine, New Orleans

"Highland Laddie" [screwing cotton]
"Fire Maringo"
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{sometime between 1845 and 1853} THE MERCHANT VESSEL  Charles Nordhoff, (1856)

"Old Stormy"
"Yankee Dollar"
"Fire Maringo"
"Highland Laddie"
"Across the briny ocean"
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{1845} AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MUSIC AND MUSICAL VISITOR, Feb. 25, 1845

"Ho, O, heave O" / "Row, Billy, row" [heaving anchor]
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{February of 1849} A TALE OF TWO OCEANS Ezekiel I. Barra, in Boston harbor, preparing to sail out to California,

"Nancy Banana" [halyards]
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{1850s} W Craig , ADVENTURES IN THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD FIELDS, 1903 "Two shanty fragments as sung on the sailing ships bringing gold seekers to Sydney

"Oh fare you well, my own Mary Anne" [pumping]
" When first we went a-waggoning" [anchor hauling]
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{1850s} OCEAN LIFE IN THE OLD SAILING SHIP DAYS, John D. Whidden. Whidden's source is his "old friend, Captain George Meacom, of Beverly [Mass.]." Meacom refers to his own recollection of the 1850s, and his testimony seems to be reliable.

"Mobile Bay" /"Johnnie Come Tell Us As We Haul Away"
"Fire Down Below"
"One More Day For Johnnie"
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{1853} A JOURNEY IN THE SEABOARD SLAVE STATES Frederick Law Olmsted, 1861

"Oahoiohieu" / "The Sailor Fireman" ("Lindy Lowe") [riverboat]
"Oh, John, come down in de holler" [riverboat]
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{1854} ETHIOPIAN MELODIES, Christy and White, 1854

"Storm along. Stormy."
"Fire Down Below"