Nicholas Low papers, 1773-1897 (bulk 1784-1828).

Open to research.

Family and business correspondence; business and ship's papers; legal papers; accounts of voyages to Asia, Europe, and South America; and printed matter of Nicholas Low, merchant of Low & Wallace, New York, N.Y., and other Low family members. Includes correspondence with foreign merchants; Low's brother, Isaac Low (1735-1791); and Isaac Low's son, Isaac Low, a commissary-general in the British Army, pertaining to 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 to events in Congress during the first session following the adoption of the Constitution and other matters. Also includes papers relating to Nicholas Low's lands in Kentucky, Ohio, and New York; the founding of Ballston Spa and Lowville, N.Y.; the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures; and other matters relating to life in New York between 1780 and 1810. Other subjects include commercial contacts in Great Britain, Ireland, the European continent, Argentina, Canada, China, India, Mexico, Uruguay, and the West Indies.

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

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012108