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Other / Unknown · Rockingham County, North Carolina · 1855
6 documents · 1 independent account
6 documents tell this story. They trace back to 1 independent account.
The route
- One encounter the reported sighting this case is about
- 6 documents that tell it, as we collected them
- 1 independent account behind those documents
- 5 copies reprints or cross-posts of the same text: not extra witnesses
Copies are not confirmations: thirty papers printing one story is still one account.
Each shape is one document; open it to go to where we found it. The same graph as a list is below.
Why these records are connected
- 5 copies: the copy detector found the same words in a later document, so it sits in the same row as the account it copies.
- Why these documents are one case. The case matcher joined them because:
- New-York dispatch & The North-Carolinian: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quotes overlap; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- New-York dispatch & The daily dispatch: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quotes overlap; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- New-York dispatch & Shepherdstown register: the copy detector found the same text in both; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- New-York dispatch & Bedford inquirer and chronicle: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quotes overlap; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- The North-Carolinian & The daily dispatch: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- The North-Carolinian & Shepherdstown register: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- The North-Carolinian & Bedford inquirer and chronicle: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quotes overlap; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- The daily dispatch & Shepherdstown register: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; same place, same day
Every document, as a list
- Account 1 6 documents
- Earliest found The Daily Dispatch (Richmond [Va.]) Newspaper · Nov 15, 1855
Image 1 of The daily dispatch (Richmond [Va.]), November 15, 1855 - Reprint The North-Carolinian (Fayetteville [N.C.]) Newspaper · Nov 24, 1855
Image 1 of The North-Carolinian (Fayetteville [N.C.]), November 24, 1855 - Reprint Shepherdstown Register (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) Newspaper · Nov 24, 1855
Image 1 of Shepherdstown register (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]), November 24, 1855 - Reprint Bedford Inquirer And Chronicle (Bedford, Pa.) Newspaper · Nov 30, 1855
Image 2 of Bedford inquirer and chronicle (Bedford, Pa.), November 30, 1855 - Reprint New-York Dispatch (New York [N.Y.]) Newspaper · Dec 2, 1855
Image 6 of New-York dispatch (New York [N.Y.]), December 2, 1855 - Reprint Grand River Times (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18?? Newspaper · Jan 2, 1856
- Earliest found The Daily Dispatch (Richmond [Va.]) Newspaper · Nov 15, 1855
How to read this
- Time runs left to right by publication date. Very long empty stretches are cut short (the axis shows how many years were skipped); undated documents sit in their own column.
- One row per independent account. A reprint, re-upload or cross-post carries the same text, so it stays in its account's row and never counts as a second witness.
- Earliest found (ringed) is the earliest document we hold for that account. It is not proof of the first telling: an earlier one may exist that we haven't collected.
- Arrows run from a document to a source it names. A dashed shape is a source a document cites that we haven't found yet; its link searches a public archive for it, and a hit there is a lead, not a confirmation.
About the numbers
- Only documents we've collected are counted; retellings elsewhere on the web aren't counted yet.
- Documents are matched by shared text and by the sources they name, by plain rules with no model in the loop. A match can be wrong; tell us.
Where next
- Back to the case
its summary, sources and discussion - Back to the map
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