"Tom Boleyn," etc., 1830-1900.

1830 Columbian Register (New Haven, Conn.): 1 stz. with chorus: “I’ll sleep in the middle”

1830 Daily National Journal (Washington, D.C.): 1 stz. “Tommy Linn…hot skin.”

1830 Boston Saturday Morning Transcript: “The good old ballad that we knew when we were knee-high to a mosquito.” Full text, like Coverly.

1832 The Day (Glasgow) 1 stz. (“gryce”), perh. with new humorous final line, also allusion to “dochter” and bridge.

1833 Salem (Mass.) Gazette, breeches stz.

1834 Arkansas Times and Advocate: full Coverley text with two added stzs.

1839 Wreck of schooner “Tom Bolin” off coast of Massachusetts.

1842 Kellogg Crosswell diary. (Pa.), printed in E. Garner, Folklore of the Schories Hills (1937), 15 stzs. like Coverly, with tune.

1846 Mass. Poetaster Albert White, Poems, has bullfrogs croaking “Tombolin, Tombolin, Tombolin.”

1849 Republican Farmer and Democratic Journal: identical but for one phrase with 1834 Ark. Times.

1851 Joanna Baillie’s humorous “Tam o’ the Lin,” 9 stzs., a complete rewrite (written perh. as early as ca1780).

1853 Literary World (London), two humorous paragraphs about “Tom Bolin” and the bridge.

1854 "Marsh’s Selection; or Singing for the Million": full text like Coverley, with tune.

1858 The Child’s Friend and Family Magazine mentions “Tom Bolin,” poss. as a broadside.

1869 Saturday Evening Post, bridge stz. but with kittens: “May the rats go with you, said Tom Bolin.”

1872 Sarah Emory, Three Generations, gives 3 ½ stzs. of “Tom Bolyn,” whole song called “vulgar.”

1876 Christie reprints Chambers’s text with a tune sung in Buchan “from time immemorial,” app. Collected before ca1850.

1890 G. W. Russell, “Up Neck” in 1825: 1 stz (bridge) “from an elderly lady.”

1892 Elizabeth Ward, Old Times in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts: 4 trad. stzs “The Song of Tombolin”; claims song was written about “an eccentric individual who lived here [about 1740] by the name of Tombolin.”

1893 Daily News (London): “There is an English hero called Tom o’ the Linn”; prints initial stz.

1895 Baring-Gould, A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes: 2 texts of ”Tommy-a-Lynn” (“a Dutchman born”), coll. in Devonshire.

None of these lists should be considered complete.