Editing Isaac Low (section)

==Career==
Low served as a tax commissioner for the New York provincial government during the [[French and Indian War]].  Low was a prominent merchant in New York City, with various firms including Lott & Low.<ref name="American1890" /> He had large real estate holdings, built up sizable trade, and had interests in a [[slitting mill]].<ref name="Harrington1935">{{cite book |last1=Harrington |first1=Virginia Draper |title=The New York Merchant on the Eve of the Revolution |date=1935 |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |pages=132, 339, 349 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iv8NAQAAIAAJ |access-date=20 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref> Low was chosen as a delegate to the [[Stamp Act Congress]] in 1763.<ref name="Ingham1983"/> Although he accumulated a fortune that placed him in the upper ranks of colonial New York's merchant leaders, he was "nowhere near its absolute pinnacle."<ref name="anb">{{cite book |title=Low, Isaac (1735-1791), merchant, early revolutionary leader, and later prominent Loyalist {{!}} American National Biography |url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-0100540 |website=www.anb.org | year=2000 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] | doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0100540 | isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 |access-date=20 June 2018 |language=en| last1=Countryman | first1=Edward }}</ref>

He was an active speaker against [[No taxation without representation|taxation without representation]] and the chairman of New York City's [[Committees of correspondence|Committee of Correspondence]] in 1765.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}} He became chairman of New York City's [[Committee of Sixty]] in 1774. Low was named one of nine delegates from New York to the [[First Continental Congress]] in 1774{{refn|group=lower-alpha|Low was appointed to the [[First Continental Congress]] by the [[Committee of Sixty|Committee of Fifty-one]] of the City and County of New York and authorized by the counties of Albany, Duchess, and Westchester.<ref>{{cite book| url = http://mrsoloughlin.weebly.com/| title = Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789| editor = Worthington C. Ford, Library of Congress (United States)| page  = 101| date = 1774| access-date = February 7, 2010|display-editors=etal}}</ref>}} and to [[New York Provincial Congress]] the following year where he pursued a moderate approach towards the British.<ref name="Wilson1893">{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=James Grant |title=The Memorial History of the City of New-York: From Its First Settlement to the Year 1892 |date=1893 |publisher=New York History Company |page=[https://archive.org/details/memorialhistory00wilsgoog/page/n516 516] |url=https://archive.org/details/memorialhistory00wilsgoog |access-date=20 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref> In 1775, he was a founder and the first president of the [[New York Chamber of Commerce]].<ref name="Appleton">''Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography,'' edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1887–1889); published on the Web by StanKlos.com (1999).</ref>

===American Revolutionary War===
Opposed to armed conflict with the British Crown, Low quit the Patriot cause after the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]] was announced in 1776 and relocated to New Jersey, where he was imprisoned on suspicion of [[treason]] by the New Jersey Convention. He was eventually released after [[George Washington]] intervened. He later collaborated with British occupation forces in New York, and his property was confiscated after the New York assembly passed a motion of attainder in 1779. Four years later, Low emigrated to England where he died in 1791.<ref name="Appleton"/>