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Robert Lenox wrote a letter in 1822, mentioning Timothy Pickering as a possible candidate to be a director of a bank.

Timothy Pickering? Wait, is that the same guy I remember from Garry Wills's book on TJ, JA, and slavery that @CPostel once assigned my M.A. class many years ago?

Sure enough, it was! Pickering died in 1829.

He had some cred if I recall.