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The Virginia Gazette Domestic News January 6, 1774
Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
What is this article about?
An express from Boston reports that on Dec. 16, 1773, after Mr. Rotch failed to get a pass, crowds dumped all tea aboard Captains Hall, Bruce, and Coffin's ships into Boston harbor without harming private property; Capt. Loring's vessel with 58 chests was cast ashore on Cape Cod.
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- 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.
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- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
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- 97.0% 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).
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- 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
- 97.0% 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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NEW YORK, December 22. Last Night an Express arrived here from Boston, who left it on Friday last, and brings sundry Letters, among which is the following, viz.
GENTLEMEN, Boston, December 17, 1773.
YESTERDAY we had a greater Meeting of the Body than ever, the Country coming in from twenty Miles round, and every Step was taken that was practicable for returning the Teas. The Moment it was known, out of Doors, that Mr. Rotch could not obtain a Pass for his Ship by the Castle, a Number of People huzzaed in the Street, and in a little Time every Ounce of the Teas on Board the Captains Hall, Bruce, and Coffin, was immersed in the Bay, without the least Injury to private Property. The Spirit of the People on this Occasion surprised all Parties, who viewed the Scene. We conceived it our Duty to afford you the most early Advice of this interesting Event by Express, which, departing immediately, obliges us to conclude.
By Order of the Committee.
P.S. The other Vessel, viz. Captain Loring, belonging to Mess. Clark, with 58 Chests, was, by the Act of God, cast on Shore, on the Back of Cape Cod.
GENTLEMEN, Boston, December 17, 1773.
YESTERDAY we had a greater Meeting of the Body than ever, the Country coming in from twenty Miles round, and every Step was taken that was practicable for returning the Teas. The Moment it was known, out of Doors, that Mr. Rotch could not obtain a Pass for his Ship by the Castle, a Number of People huzzaed in the Street, and in a little Time every Ounce of the Teas on Board the Captains Hall, Bruce, and Coffin, was immersed in the Bay, without the least Injury to private Property. The Spirit of the People on this Occasion surprised all Parties, who viewed the Scene. We conceived it our Duty to afford you the most early Advice of this interesting Event by Express, which, departing immediately, obliges us to conclude.
By Order of the Committee.
P.S. The other Vessel, viz. Captain Loring, belonging to Mess. Clark, with 58 Chests, was, by the Act of God, cast on Shore, on the Back of Cape Cod.
What sub-type of article is it?
Riot Or Protest
Politics
What keywords are associated?
Boston Tea Party
Tea Destroyed
Boston Harbor
Captain Hall
What entities or persons were involved?
Mr. Rotch
Capt. Hall
Capt. Bruce
Capt. Coffin
Capt. Loring
Where did it happen?
Boston
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Boston
Event Date
1773 12 16
Key Persons
Mr. Rotch
Capt. Hall
Capt. Bruce
Capt. Coffin
Capt. Loring
Outcome
tea from three ships immersed in boston harbor; no private property injured; capt. loring's vessel with 58 chests cast ashore on cape cod.