1800s

Summary: The African-American rowing songs continue to appear, in Surinam and Georgia.

We get the idea that the common cry for heaving capstan or windlass on ships was "Yo heave ho."

It's possible that by this decade (if not 2 decades later), two hauling phrases/chants/songs existed. One is CHEERLY and the other uses "Sally Brown oh!" These are possibly related or one and the same (cf. the Sally Racket style song).

Sources:

c.1800s-1820s

- "Cheerly men" [CHEERLY] (conjecture based on comment of "time out of mind," in UNITED SERVICES JOURNAL 1834)

1805

- eight stout negroes, who sing in chorus all the way, Surinam/Black rowing (Sack 1810)

c.1805-1820s

- "Oh Sally Brown, Sally Brown, oh!" Possibly, British war ship (Robinson 1858)

c.1806

- "Aye, aye/ Yoe, yoe" Savannah River, Georgia/Blacks rowing (Lambert 1810)

1806, June

- "Yo, heave ho!" as if heaving at the capstan or windlass, Jamaica > NY (European Magazine 1807)

c.1808-1826

- a common sailors' chant in character, having a sort of 'Sally Brown, oh, ho,' chorus; and requiring the action of pulling a rope, London stage (Clason 1826)