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The Virginia Gazette Foreign News August 12, 1737
Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
What is this article about?
Death of John Wright, a 110-year-old Londonderry man and former pikeman of 1641, who at age 100 made a coffin that served him ten years as a cupboard and finally enclosed his body.
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
- 95.43% 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
- 98.77% 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
- 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
- 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
Edinburgh, April 12. On the 26th ult. John Wright, one of the Matrosses to the Train of Artillery at Londonderry, was committed to the Earth, in the 110th Year of his Age. He was a Pikeman in the Year 1641. Four Years ago he made a Spinning Wheel for a Gentlewoman of that Town, and in the 100th Year of his Age he made a Coffin, which served him 10 Years for a Cupboard, and at last inclosed his Body.
What sub-type of article is it?
Human Interest
What keywords are associated?
John Wright
Death At 110
Coffin Cupboard
Londonderry
Longevity
What entities or persons were involved?
John Wright
Where did it happen?
Londonderry
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Londonderry
Event Date
The 26th Ult.
Key Persons
John Wright
Outcome
john wright died, aged 110, and was buried in the coffin he had made at age 100.