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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, Low emigrated to England where he died in 1791.
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edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1887–1889); published on the Web by StanKlos.com (1999).
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in 1763. Although he accumulated a fortune that placed him in the upper ranks of colonial New York's merchant leaders, he was "nowhere near its absolute pinnacle."
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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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the following year where he pursued a moderate approach towards the British. In 1775, he was a founder and the first president of the
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of the City and County of New York and authorized by the counties of Albany, Duchess, and Westchester.
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was announced in 1776 and relocated to New Jersey, where he was imprisoned on suspicion of
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Opposed to armed conflict with the British Crown, Low quit the Patriot cause after the
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Worthington C. Ford, Library of Congress (United States); et al., eds. (1774).
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Low served as a tax commissioner for the New York provincial government during the
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Low married Margarita Cuyler (1738–1802) in 1760, a scion of the powerful
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in 1774. Low was named one of nine delegates from New York to the
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by the New Jersey Convention. He was eventually released after
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Continental Congress
Piscataway
Province of New Jersey
British America
Cowes
Isle of Wight
Great Britain
Cornelius Low Jr.
Nicholas Low
Abraham Cuyler
Cornelius Cuyler
Cornelis Cuyler
New York City
Continental Congress
Continental Association
New York Provincial Congress
Patriot
Loyalist
American Revolution
Raritan Landing
Piscataway
Province of New Jersey
née
Gouverneur
Nicholas Low
Cornelius Low House
Huguenot
French and Indian War
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