13 Facts About Isaac Low

Isaac Low was an American merchant in New York City who served as a member of the Continental Congress, where he signed the Continental Association.

Isaac Low later served as a delegate to the New York Provincial Congress.

Isaac Low's 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.

Isaac Low's family was descended from German, Dutch and French Huguenot settlers.

Isaac Low served as a tax commissioner for the New York provincial government during the French and Indian War.

Isaac Low had large real estate holdings, built up sizable trade, and had interests in a slitting mill.

Isaac Low was chosen as a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress in 1763.

Isaac Low was an active speaker against taxation without representation and the chairman of New York City's Committee of Correspondence in 1765.

Isaac Low became chairman of New York City's Committee of Sixty in 1774.

Isaac Low was named one of nine delegates from New York to the First Continental Congress in 1774 and to New York Provincial Congress the following year where he pursued a moderate approach towards the British.

Isaac Low was eventually released after George Washington intervened, but after collaboration with the British occupation forces in New York, his property was confiscated after the New York assembly passed a motion of attainder in 1779.

Four years later, Isaac Low emigrated to England where he died in 1791.

Isaac Low married Margarita Cuyler in 1760, a scion of the powerful Schuyler and Van Cortlandt families.