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The Virginia Gazette Domestic News March 1, 1738
Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
What is this article about?
John Savy, sent from Lisbon by Lord Tyrawley, is secured in Pendennis Castle and confesses he had undertaken to guide the Spaniards in invading Carolina and Georgia; he is son-in-law to Capt. Green, accused of stirring up differences between the colonies.
Quality green show the numbers
Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 98.0% 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
- 97.84% 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
- 99.22% 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
- 94.0% (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
John Savy; the Person mentioned in the Letter from Falmouth, who was sent from Lisbon by Lord Tyrawley, on board the Packet Boat, is now secur'd in Pendennis Castle; he owns that he had undertaken to guide the Spaniards in their invading of Carolina and Georgia; the former of which Countries he is very well acquainted with, being a Carolina Man. He is Son-in-Law to one Capt. Green, who trades from Charles-Town amongst the Indians; and who was busy in stirring up Differences between Carolina and Georgia.
What sub-type of article is it?
Crime
Military
What keywords are associated?
John Savy
Spanish Invasion Plot
Pendennis Castle
Carolina Georgia
What entities or persons were involved?
John Savy
Lord Tyrawley
Capt. Green
Where did it happen?
Pendennis Castle, Falmouth
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Pendennis Castle, Falmouth
Key Persons
John Savy
Lord Tyrawley
Capt. Green
Outcome
savy secured and confessed; capt. green accused of stirring up differences between carolina and georgia.