<Tr> <Th> Published </Th> <Td> May 24, 1830 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Songwriter (s) </Th> <Td> Sarah Josepha Hale, John Roulstone </Td> </Tr> <P> "Mary Had a Little Lamb" is an English language nursery rhyme of nineteenth - century American origin . It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7622 . </P> <P> The nursery rhyme was first published by the Boston publishing firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon, as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale on May 24, 1830, and was possibly inspired by an actual incident . </P>

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