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Paul Revere Network

Source: R/data.R
paul.revere.Rd

Association network of Paul Revere and other leaders from the American Revolution in the Boston area.

Usage

paul.revere

Format

An undirected igraph graph object.

Vertex Attributes:

  • "name": Names of individuals as "Surname.Firstname"

  • "StAndrewsLodge": Logical, was the individual a member of St Andrews Lodge?

  • "LoyalNine": Logical, was the individual a member of the Loyal Nine?

  • "NorthCaucus": Logical, was the individual a member of the the North End Caucus?

  • "LongRoomClub": Logical, was the individual a member of the Long Room Club?

  • "TeaParty": Logical, did the individual participate in the Boston Tea Party?

  • "BostonCommittee": Logical, was the individual a member of the Boston Committee?

  • "LondonEnemies": Logical, was the individual a Whig leader on the Tory enemies list?

Edge Attributes:

  • "weight": edge weight, number of shared organizational memberships between the two individuals

  • "membership": vector of length weight stating which organizations the two individuals were both members of.

Source

Data originally published by Fischer (1994) and electronically published on GitHub by Healy (2017) . Also found in Han (2009) .

Details

This network includes a total of 254 men involved in Boston's revolutionary movement. Each man was a member of one (or several) of the following seven groups: the Masonic lodge that met at the Green Dragon Tavern; the Loyal Nine, which was the nucleus of the Sons of Liberty; the North Caucus that met at the Salutation Tavern; the Long Room Club in Dassett Alley; the Boston Committee of Correspondence; the men who are known to have participated in the Boston Tea Party; and Whig leaders on a Tory Enemies List.

Nodes in this network are the men. An edge is present between two men if they were both members of the same group. The edge weight is the number of groups they were both members of. (e.g. John Adams and Dr. Allen were both part of the North Caucus so there is an edge between them with weight one. John Bradford and William Powell were both members of the Boston Committee and the London Enemies so there is an edge between them with weight two.)

References

Fischer DH (1994). Paul Revere's Ride. Oxford University Press.

Han SK (2009). “The other ride of Paul Revere: The brokerage role in the making of the American revolution.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 14(2), 143--162. doi:10.17813/maiq.14.2.g360870167085210 .

Healy K (2017). “Using Metadata to find Paul Revere.” https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/. Accessed: 2024-11-01, https://github.com/kjhealy/revere?tab=readme-ov-file.

Examples

data("paul.revere")
set.seed(400)
plot(paul.revere, vertex.label = NA)