Isaac Low

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Early lifeEdit

Low was born on April 13, 1735, at Raritan Landing in Piscataway, Province of New Jersey.<ref name="ILbioguide">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was the son of Cornelius Low Jr. and Johanna (née Gouverneur) Low and the brother of Nicholas Low.<ref name="Ingham1983">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="NLloc">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His father was a well-established merchant and shipper who built the Cornelius Low House, an extant 1741 Georgian mansion, and brought prominence to the community of Raritan Landing.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Low's family was descended from German, Dutch and French Huguenot settlers.<ref name="Ingham1983" />

CareerEdit

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">Template:Cite book</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">Template:Cite book</ref>

He was an active speaker against taxation without representation and the chairman of New York City's Committee of Correspondence in 1765.Template:Citation needed 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 1774Template:Refn and to New York Provincial Congress the following year where he pursued a moderate approach towards the British.<ref name="Wilson1893">Template:Cite book</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 WarEdit

Opposed to armed conflict with the British Crown, Low quit the Patriot cause after the 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"/>

Personal lifeEdit

Low married Margarita Cuyler (1738–1802) in 1760, a scion of the powerful Schuyler and Van Cortlandt families.<ref name="American1890">Template:Cite book</ref> Both her father, Cornelis Cuyler, and brother, Abraham Cuyler, were mayors of Albany. Another brother, General Cornelius Cuyler, was a British Army officer during the French Revolutionary Wars, who served as Lt. Gov. of Portsmouth and was created a Baronet of St John's Lodge.Template:Citation needed 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">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Council1844">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="allthingsliberty">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Low died in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, 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">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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