Timeline of Music in The United States To 1819 - 1734

1734

• John Wesley's A Collection of Psalms and Hymns is the "first book of religious music published in the colonies".
• The first newspaper advertisement concerning a fugitive slave with a reference to the slave's musical ability comes from American Weekly Mercury, about runaway Samuel Leonard of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, a half-Native American, half-African fiddler.