Nicholas Low papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36000
Subjects: Correspondence; Commerce; Merchants; United States; Description and travel; Business records; Politics and government; Low & Wallace (New York, N.Y.); Land speculation; Mordecai Lewis & Company (Philadelphia, Pa.); Voyages and travels; Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures; United States. Congress; Ship's papers; Claims; American loyalists; History
Description: Family and business correspondence, business and ship's papers, legal papers, accounts of voyages to Asia, Europe, and South America, and printed matter.  Includes correspondence with foreign merchants, letters from Low's brother, Isaac Low (1735-1791), and his nephew, Isaac Low (commissary-general, British Army) dealing with trade conditions, loyalist matters, progress of British-American relations, and the proceedings for recovery of property seized from Isaac Low during the Revolution.  Correspondence of Mordecai Lewis & Company, merchants, of Philadelphia, Pa., relates in part to events in Congress during the first session following the adoption of the Constitution.  Also includes papers relating to Low's lands in Kentucky, Ohio, and New York, the founding of Ballston Spa (circa 1787) and Lowville, N.Y., the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, and other matters relating to life in New York, N.Y. (1780-1810).
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Emil Hurja, 1938-1939.

New York merchant, financier, land speculator, and state legislator.

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