Sheet Music for "Black ey'd Susan"

Whittier Perkins, “A Collection of Dancing Tunes, Marches, & Song Tunes” [Commonplace book] (Massachusetts, [ca. 1790]), 44. Courtesy Columbia University, Special Collections.
Whittier Perkins’s melody seems to be a partly remembered variant of the original Leveridge tune as seen in Minstrel. Perkins’s manuscript, begun in 1790, is particularly valuable as a window on traditional music in early Federal Boston. He seems to have obtained his material from oral sources.