Samuel Johnson Jr.

[2] Martha Jane Gibson, from Yale University, sees Samuel Johnson Jr. as America's first lexicographer.

The coincidence of names leads many people to believe that this last one was the author of the dictionary.

Rather, Samuel Johnson Jr. was from an old Guilford family; his father was a clothier,[3] and his great uncle was the Rev.

Dr. Samuel Johnson (1696–1772), noted theologian, and first President of King's College (now Columbia University).

Also according to the New York Times, "the British Museum has a copy presumably perfect; Yale University Library has the Brinley copy, which lacks pages 157-168 out of 198, the total number.