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==Personal life== Low married Margarita Cuyler (1738–1802) in 1760, a scion of the powerful [[Schuyler family|Schuyler]] and [[Van Cortlandt family|Van Cortlandt families]].<ref name="American1890">{{cite book |title=The Illustrated American |date=1890 |publisher=Illustrated American Publishing Company |page=414 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CRhLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA414 |access-date=20 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref> Both her father, [[Cornelis Cuyler]], and brother, [[Abraham Cuyler]], were mayors of [[Albany, New York|Albany]]. Another brother, General [[Cornelius Cuyler]], was a [[British Army]] officer during the [[French Revolutionary Wars]], who served as [[List of governors of Portsmouth|Lt. Gov. of Portsmouth]] and was created a [[Cuyler baronets|Baronet of St John's Lodge]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}} Together, Isaac and Margarita were the parents of one child,<ref name="American1890"/> Isaac Low Jr., who was educated in French and became a British army commissary-general.<ref name="Jasanoff2012">{{cite book |last1=Jasanoff |first1=Maya |title=Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World |date=2012 |publisher=[[Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group]] |isbn=9781400075478 |page=385 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uGKsn09oVwQC&pg=PA385 |access-date=20 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Council1844">{{cite book |title=(Thirteenth-Fourteenth) Annual Report of the Council: With The Lists of The Local Committees; Proceedings of Evening Meetings; The Laws; And A List of The Members |date=1844 |location=London |page=35 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=up1eAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA35 |access-date=20 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="allthingsliberty">{{cite web |last1=Werther |first1=Richard J. |title=Patriots Turned Loyalist—The Experiences of Joseph Galloway and Isaac Low |url=https://allthingsliberty.com/2018/02/patriots-turned-loyalist-experiences-joseph-galloway-isaac-low/ |website=allthingsliberty.com |publisher=Journal of the American Revolution |access-date=20 June 2018 |date=21 February 2018}}</ref> Low died in [[Cowes]] on the [[Isle of Wight]], [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]], on July 25, 1791. Although a family tradition holds that his wife joined him, probate records hold that she died in Albany in 1802.<ref name="MCL">{{cite web |last1=Bielinski |first1=Stephen |title=Margarita Cuyler Low |url=https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/c/mgtcuyler592.html |website=www.nysm.nysed.gov |publisher=[[New York State Museum]] |access-date=20 June 2018}}</ref>
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