Scope and Contents Gabriel Galt Williamson is now in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and holds the rank of Lieutenant. While in Philadelphia, Thomas dined with David Crockett, "a rough, awkward, bullying sort of a fellow about 45 years old. "I put up at the National Hotel and I suppose 100 or 120 persons were seated at the table, he was shown a bill of fare and selected a dish of tripe on which he made his dinner and when asked what kind of wine he'd drink, said some of that old cider wine [champagne] because it tastes like cider. On being called on for a toast he rose and pronounced in a loud voice--'may the bones of Kings and tyrants be introduced in Hell as Grid Irons, to wash the souls of Tories.' His language is vulgar and quite in the negro quarter style. Says he left at home a wife and five or six children in a log hut with a plenty of Bear meat and corn as happy as cubs." [Note: David Crockett (1786-1836), at this time a Representative in Congress, was on his celebrated "tour of the north".]