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• Hymns, English -- United States
• Hymns, English -- Early works to 1800

• The Hartford Selection of Hymns, Compiled From the Most Approved Authors; To Which Are Added a Number Never Before Published (Hartford: J. Hancock, 1799), ed. by Nathan Strong, Abel Flint, and Joseph Steward (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Colporteur's Commission: A Tract for the Times, in Several Scriptural Hymns (ca. 1862), by H. Keeling
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Indian Melodies (New York: G. Lane and C. B. Tippett, 1845), by Thomas Commuck and Thomas Hastings
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • hymn pages with commentary: page images at hymnary.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Manual for Infant Schools (Richmond, Va.: Soldiers' Tract Association, M. E. Church, South, 1863), ed. by S. L. Farr (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Catechism for the Use of the Methodist Missions, First Part (Charleston: Published by John Early, 1853), by William Capers (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Twenty-Four Negro Melodies, Transcribed for the Piano (Boston: O. Ditson Co.; et al., c1905), ed. by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, contrib. by Booker T. Washington (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Hymn and Prayer-Book, For the Use of Such Lutheran Churches As Use the English Language (New York: Hurton and Commardinger, 1795), ed. by John C. Kunze (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Book of American Negro Spirituals (New York: Viking Press, 1925), ed. by James Weldon Johnson, contrib. by J. Rosamond Johnson and Lawrence Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hampton and its Students, by M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow (page images at MOA)

• Slave Songs of the United States (reprint; New York: P. Smith, 1951), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slave Songs of the United States (New York: A. Simpson and Co., 1867), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Slave Songs of the United States (reprint; New York: P. Smith, 1951), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hampton Series: Negro Folk-Songs (4 volumes; New York and Boston: G. Schirmer, c1918-1919), ed. by Natalie Curtis Burlin
  • Volume I (Spirituals): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II (Spirituals): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume III (Work and Play Songs): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume IV (Work and Play Songs): multiple formats at archive.org
• Slave Songs of the United States (New York: A. Simpson and Co., 1867), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Christian Hymns, Poems, and Spiritual Songs, Sacred to the Praise of God Our saviour (Burlington: Reprinted by I. Collins, 1776), by James Relly and John Relly (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Divine Hymns, or, Spiritual Songs, For the Use of Religious Assemblies and Private Christians (Portsmouth, NH: J. Melcher, 1794), ed. by Joshua Smith and Samuel Sleeper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Society Hymns, Original and Selected, on Evangelical and Experimental Subjects (Boston: Manning and Loring, 1790) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Publick Worship (Salem: Dabney and Cushing, ca. 1788), ed. by William Bentley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Hartford Selection of Hymns, Compiled From the Most Approved Authors; To Which Are Added a Number Never Before Published (Hartford: J. Hancock, 1799), ed. by Nathan Strong, Abel Flint, and Joseph Steward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Pocket Hymn Book, Designed as a Constant Companion for the Pious, Collected From Various Authors (21st edition; Philadelphia: Printed by H. Tuckniss and sold by J. Dickins, 1797) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Selection of Psalms and Hymns, Done Under the Appointment of the Philadelphian Association (Philadelphia: R. Aitken and Son, 1790), ed. by Samuel Jones and Burgiss Allison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Psalms and Hymns of Isaac Watts, by Isaac Watts (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Hymns and Spiritual Songs, in Three Books (18th edition, without music; New York: S. Parker, 1760), by Isaac Watts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Olney Hymns, by John Newton (multiple formats at CCEL)