If Webster created the very first dictionary means then where did he find the words?

Note: webster is the founder of Dictionary.If Webster created the very first dictionary means then where did he find the words?
It is questionable that Websters was the first dictionary They probably stole it. Someone called Johnston and his colleagues spent nine years, reading books, listening to peoples speech, and compiling information.
"If Webster created the very first dictionary"

He didn't.

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The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written by English schoolteacher Robert Cawdrey in 1604.
- Wikipedia / Dictionary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary#鈥?/a>
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As far as we know from his description, Cawdrey collected over some years the "hard words" he encountered during his work, as well as copying entries from many earlier sources such as word lists and commentaries on words. - http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/鈥?/a>If Webster created the very first dictionary means then where did he find the words?
Well, he didn't, but I think the first dictionaries were created as explanations of some of the harder/more obscure words found in books chosen for their likelihood to have such words.If Webster created the very first dictionary means then where did he find the words?
He took twenty-seven years to finish it, so he had all the time in the world to find the words.
From personal experience and personal word interpretation

i guess
Words have been in existence far longer than any books.