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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle Domestic News June 22, 1770
Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Accounts brought by the Betsey, Capt. Gardiner, from New-England assert soldiers of the 29th regiment had threatened, before the Boston Massacre, that the streets would flow with blood on March 5.
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
- 96.58% 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
- 98.89% 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
- 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
- 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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Full Text
May 5. Some accounts by the Betsey, Captain Gardiner, from New-England, assert, that some of the soldiers of the 29th regiment had been heard to declare, ten days before the massacre happened, that the streets of Boston would flow with blood on the 5th of March. That others were heard to say, on the Friday and Saturday preceding, "That many would dine on Sunday who would not sup on Monday and Tuesday night." And that several had warned their particular acquaintance among the town's people, during the preceding week, "not to stay abroad on the Monday following, as there would be bloody work in the streets on that day."
What sub-type of article is it?
Crime
Riot Or Protest
What keywords are associated?
Boston Massacre
29th Regiment
Soldiers' Threats
Streets Of Boston
Where did it happen?
Boston
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Boston
Event Date
May 5
Outcome
no outcome stated; threats reported before the massacre.