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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle Domestic News December 3, 1773
Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Capt. Hall's ship Dartmouth arrived in Boston harbor with 114 chests of East India Company tea; a posted notification called citizens to Faneuil Hall to resist the landing, and it was determined the tea would not be permitted to be landed or sold.
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- Mean ink quality
- 96.0% 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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- 7.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 93.89% 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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- Transcription confidence
- 90.0% (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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Last Saturday arrived Capt. Clark, in a Brig, from London, which he left the latter End of August.---And Yesterday Morning Capt. Hall, in the Ship Dartmouth, came to Anchor near the Castle, in about 8 Weeks from the same Place, and early this Morning came up into the Harbour; on board of whom it is said, are 114 Cheats of the much talked of East India Company's TEA, the expected Arrival of which pernicious Article has for some Time past put all these Northern Colonies in a Ferment;--And this Morning the following Notification was posted up in all Parts of the Town, viz.
Friends! Brethren! Countrymen!
THAT worst of Plagues the detestable TEA shipped for this Port by the East India Company, is now arrived in this Harbour, the Hour of Destruction or manly Opposition to the Machinations of Tyranny stares you in the Face; every Friend to his Country, to himself and Posterity, is now called upon to meet at Faneuil-Hall, at NINE o'Clock, THIS DAY, (at which Time the Bells will ring) to make a united and successful Resistance to this last, worst and most destructive Measure of Administration. Boston, Nov. 29, 1773.
So that as yet we cannot inform our Readers what will be the Consequence of this Importation; but it is said the Gentlemen to whom the Tea is consigned, are disposed to do every Thing in their Power to quiet the Minds of the People relative thereto, and are willing that baneful Article should be re shipped to the Place from whence it came---However be that as it may, we are assured it will not be permitted to be, landed or sold here it being the Determination of almost all the People, both of Town and Country, resolutely to oppose this article of the East India Company in every possible Way.
There were three vessels to sail from London for this Place, viz. Capt. Coffin, and may be daily expected, having each of them on board a Quantity of this said poisonous Weed, viz. 114 Chests in Captain Coffin, 116 in Captain Bruce, and 58 in Captain Loing.
We hear that no Tea was shipped for the Southern Colonies when Capt. Hall failed, the Masters of their trading Ships nobly refusing to take it on board; but that the East-India Company were about taking up Vessels on their own Account for that Purpose.
Friends! Brethren! Countrymen!
THAT worst of Plagues the detestable TEA shipped for this Port by the East India Company, is now arrived in this Harbour, the Hour of Destruction or manly Opposition to the Machinations of Tyranny stares you in the Face; every Friend to his Country, to himself and Posterity, is now called upon to meet at Faneuil-Hall, at NINE o'Clock, THIS DAY, (at which Time the Bells will ring) to make a united and successful Resistance to this last, worst and most destructive Measure of Administration. Boston, Nov. 29, 1773.
So that as yet we cannot inform our Readers what will be the Consequence of this Importation; but it is said the Gentlemen to whom the Tea is consigned, are disposed to do every Thing in their Power to quiet the Minds of the People relative thereto, and are willing that baneful Article should be re shipped to the Place from whence it came---However be that as it may, we are assured it will not be permitted to be, landed or sold here it being the Determination of almost all the People, both of Town and Country, resolutely to oppose this article of the East India Company in every possible Way.
There were three vessels to sail from London for this Place, viz. Capt. Coffin, and may be daily expected, having each of them on board a Quantity of this said poisonous Weed, viz. 114 Chests in Captain Coffin, 116 in Captain Bruce, and 58 in Captain Loing.
We hear that no Tea was shipped for the Southern Colonies when Capt. Hall failed, the Masters of their trading Ships nobly refusing to take it on board; but that the East-India Company were about taking up Vessels on their own Account for that Purpose.
What sub-type of article is it?
Politics
Riot Or Protest
What keywords are associated?
Dartmouth
Tea Arrival
Boston
East India Company
Faneuil Hall
What entities or persons were involved?
Capt. Clark
Capt. Hall
Capt. Coffin
Capt. Bruce
Capt. Loing
Where did it happen?
Boston
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Boston
Event Date
Nov. 29, 1773
Key Persons
Capt. Clark
Capt. Hall
Capt. Coffin
Capt. Bruce
Capt. Loing
Outcome
tea arrival opposed; citizens resolved not to allow landing or sale.