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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle Domestic News August 30, 1765
Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
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What is this article about?
Reports from Boston say Stamp Act disturbances revived on Monday evening; a mob damaged the dwelling houses of Lt. G—h—fon, B——n H—ll, jun. and Mr. S——, breaking windows and destroying much furniture before thousands of onlookers.
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Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 99.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 95.47% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 99.89% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 96.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 95.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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PORTSMOUTH, August 30.
Having given an Account in our last of the Uneasiness of the People in Boston, respecting the STAMP-ACT, and the demolishing an Edifice, which was almost compleated, said to be for the Reception of the Stamps---We are now further informed from thence, by a Person who came to Town on Wednesday, That in Consequence of some private Intelligence respecting the Conduct of certain Persons in that Town, and the Assurance, or rather Imprudence of others, the Commotions there were again revived on Monday Evening last, and the Dwelling Houses of Lt. G—h—fon, B——n H—ll, jun. Esq; and Mr. S——, are greatly Damaged, having all their Windows broke in Pieces, and great part of their Furniture destroyed, in presence of some Thousands. As this Affair happen'd after the Public Prints were struck off, we expect to have a more particular Account in our next.
Having given an Account in our last of the Uneasiness of the People in Boston, respecting the STAMP-ACT, and the demolishing an Edifice, which was almost compleated, said to be for the Reception of the Stamps---We are now further informed from thence, by a Person who came to Town on Wednesday, That in Consequence of some private Intelligence respecting the Conduct of certain Persons in that Town, and the Assurance, or rather Imprudence of others, the Commotions there were again revived on Monday Evening last, and the Dwelling Houses of Lt. G—h—fon, B——n H—ll, jun. Esq; and Mr. S——, are greatly Damaged, having all their Windows broke in Pieces, and great part of their Furniture destroyed, in presence of some Thousands. As this Affair happen'd after the Public Prints were struck off, we expect to have a more particular Account in our next.
What sub-type of article is it?
Riot Or Protest
Politics
What keywords are associated?
Stamp Act
Boston Riots
House Damaged
Windows Broken
Furniture Destroyed
What entities or persons were involved?
Lt. G—H—Fon
B——N H—Ll, Jun. Esq.
Mr. S——
Where did it happen?
Boston
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Boston
Event Date
Monday Evening Last
Key Persons
Lt. G—H—Fon
B——N H—Ll, Jun. Esq.
Mr. S——
Outcome
dwelling houses greatly damaged; windows broken and much furniture destroyed; thousands present.