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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle Domestic News June 19, 1772
Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
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His Majesty's armed schooner Gaspee, under Lt. Duddingston, ran aground in Providence River and was boarded, burned, and destroyed by a party of men; the captain was wounded and a reward of £100 was offered for the perpetrators.
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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
- 96.02% 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
- 99.08% 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
- 95.0% (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
- 90.0% 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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We have advice from Rhode-Island, that on Tuesday last, as his Majesty's armed Schooner Gaspee, commanded by Lieutenant Duddingston, with about 16 or 17 men, was going up Providence river, she run ashore at high Water, on a point, about 7 miles below that town; and that about two o'clock the next morning a number of men, (some of the depositions of the schooner's people say only about 30, others perhaps more frightened than the rest, make them 150) came along side of her in 5 or 6 boats; upon the first notice whereof the commander instantly got out of bed and came upon deck with a pistol and a sword, and fired the pistol at the boats, which was returned by the discharge of another from them, when the ball went thro' his wrist, as his hand was hanging down his side, and lodged in his groin; the people in the boats immediately took possession of the vessel, without any further damage (except a slight wound which one of the sailors received by a stick) and bound the crew, and after dressing the Captain's wound as well as they could, put them all on shore, they then set fire to the schooner which, with all her stores, &c: were entirely consumed.
We are told that the Captain of the schooner, after he was wounded and secured, desired that his money and papers might be delivered him, the former was complied with, but the latter with every thing else he had on board, were destroyed: 'Tis said he is in a fair way of recovery.---------The Governor of Rhode-Island has issued a proclamation offering a reward of one hundred pounds sterling, for the discovery of the persons concerned in this affair.
We are told that the Captain of the schooner, after he was wounded and secured, desired that his money and papers might be delivered him, the former was complied with, but the latter with every thing else he had on board, were destroyed: 'Tis said he is in a fair way of recovery.---------The Governor of Rhode-Island has issued a proclamation offering a reward of one hundred pounds sterling, for the discovery of the persons concerned in this affair.
What sub-type of article is it?
Rebellion Or Revolt
Shipping
Crime
What keywords are associated?
Gaspee
Providence River
Burning
Reward
Lieutenant Duddingston
What entities or persons were involved?
Lieutenant Duddingston
Governor Of Rhode Island
Where did it happen?
Providence River, Rhode Island
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Providence River, Rhode Island
Event Date
Tuesday Last / Next Morning
Key Persons
Lieutenant Duddingston
Governor Of Rhode Island
Outcome
gaspee burned with stores; captain wounded in wrist and groin; crew set ashore; reward of one hundred pounds sterling offered.