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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Nicholas Low papers, 1773-1897 (bulk 1784-1828)</title>
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    <namePart>Low, Nicholas</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1739-1826</namePart>
    <role>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>36,000</extent>
    <extent>100 4</extent>
    <extent>40</extent>
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  <abstract>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 &amp; 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 &amp; 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.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>New York merchant, financier, land speculator, and state legislator.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012108">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012108</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Low, Isaac</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Low, Isaac</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1735-1791</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Great Britain.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army</namePart>
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    <topic>Officers</topic>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Low &amp; Wallace (New York, N.Y.)</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Mordecai Lewis &amp; Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Congress.</namePart>
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  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American loyalists</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Business records</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Land speculation</topic>
    <geographic>Kentucky</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Land speculation</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Land speculation</topic>
    <geographic>Ohio</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Merchants</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>New York</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Merchants</topic>
    <geographic>Pennsylvania</geographic>
    <geographic>Philadelphia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Ship's papers</topic>
    <temporal>18th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Ship's papers</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Voyages and travels</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Asia</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Ballston Spa (N.Y.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Europe</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Argentina</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Canada</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>China</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Europe</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>India</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Ireland</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Lowville (N.Y.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Mexico</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>South America</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
    <topic>Claims</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1783-1789</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Uruguay</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>West Indies</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Land speculators</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Merchants</occupation>
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