Bubba, think ya better look before you leap. I put that out there because it was the 1st John Pickering I came across and he died in 1805, so I needed to know what the 1826 was in reference to. FYI, many judges were removed after Pickering. Insanity was the tool of the day as is racism is today. Get the picture!
Let the political games continue......
Pickering, John (?1776–1846) linguist, philologist, attorney; born in Salem, Mass. (son of Timothy Pickering). He graduated from Harvard (1796) and spent several years in Europe with the United States Diplomatic Corps. After returning to Masssachusetts, he practiced law and served in the state senate. He wrote many books and articles on language, including the first collection of American word usages (1816) and a Greek-English dictionary (1st edition, 1826). He was also a leading authority on the languages of North American Indians.
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