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Nicholas Low

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Through his daughter Henrietta, he was the grandfather of Anne Johnstone King (1827–1891); Cornelius Low King (1829–1893), who married Julia Ellen Lawrence (1832–1862), and later, Janet De Kay (1839–1896); Henrietta Low King (b. 1833); Gertrude Wallace King (b. 1836);
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Like his brother, Nicholas became a prominent merchant (Low & Wallace) in New York before the revolution. Unlike Isaac, he remained a supporter of the rebel cause during the
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Cornelius Low was a leading citizen of Raritan Landing, a port community on the Raritan River in central New Jersey that flourished between 1720 and 1835.
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Low became active in civic and state affairs for a decade. A power vacuum was created in the city when the
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Late in life, Nicholas married Alice Halliburton (d. 1818). Together, the couple had three children:
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In the turmoil that followed the revolution, Low acquired several large tracts of land in upstate
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In later years, Low turned his attention to developing his own properties. He built the
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population, including his brother Isaac, left with the British Army evacuated in 1783.
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Ann Low (1779–1823), who married John Johnstone, descendant of New York mayor
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The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States
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New York State Assembly
Piscataway
Province of New Jersey
British America
New York City
New York
Federalist
Cornelius Low Jr.
Issac Low
Charles King
Mary Alsop King
New York City
New York
Lowville
Lewis County
Raritan Landing
Piscataway Township
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Isaac Low
Huguenot
Cornelius Low Jr.
Cornelius Low House
American Revolution
Loyalist
New York State Assembly
11th
11th New York State Legislatures
1788 convention
United States Constitution

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