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The Virginia Gazette Domestic News December 7, 1739
Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
What is this article about?
Rev. George Whitefield, the celebrated preacher, arrived from England and preached 19 times in Philadelphia, 8 in New York, and to 8,000-10,000 people in open fields; after preaching at Annapolis before the governor, he arrived here on his way to Georgia, to preach Sunday.
Quality green show the numbers
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
- 98.29% 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
- 99.15% 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
- 97.0% (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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Full Text
We hear from Philadelphia, That the Reverend Mr. Whitfield (the celebrated Preacher) was arrived there from England; and had preach'd in that City 19 Times, and at New York 8 Times; that vast Numbers of People flock'd to hear him; and the Churches not being large enough to contain the Hearers, he had preach'd in the open Fields to 8 or 10,000 People at a Time. He preached at several other Places, on his Way to Maryland; and last Friday he preached at Annapolis, before the Governor, several of the Council, and a great Number of People.
This Evening the Rev. Mr. Whitfield arrived here, on his Way to Georgia. We hear he is to preach at our Church on Sunday; and on Monday goes on his Journey.
This Evening the Rev. Mr. Whitfield arrived here, on his Way to Georgia. We hear he is to preach at our Church on Sunday; and on Monday goes on his Journey.
What sub-type of article is it?
Religious Event
Arrival Departure
What keywords are associated?
George Whitefield
Preaching Tour
Open Air Sermons
What entities or persons were involved?
Rev. Mr. Whitfield
Where did it happen?
Philadelphia; Annapolis; Williamsburg
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Philadelphia; Annapolis; Williamsburg
Event Date
Last Friday; This Evening
Key Persons
Rev. Mr. Whitfield
Outcome
preached to large crowds; scheduled to preach at the local church on sunday.