Series I. Nicholas Low and Low & Wallace, 1794-1814, inclusive
Letter from Alexander Hamilton (Philadelphia) to Nicholas Low (New York), 1794 September 17
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General Schuyler directed [t]hat when the time came for paying for a coach building for him here, I should draw upon you for the money. That time is come & I am not otherwise provided so that I have this day drawn upon you in favour of John Kean Esq for the cost being Fifteen hundred Dollars what I request you to pay & charge to him. We are all alive here preparing for the [Insurgents?] Yours A Hamilton
P.S. Is it true that I ought to congratulate you on having become a benedict [i.e., a newly married man]. If so accept my heartfelt congratulations [illegible] N Low Esq
Letters (2) from Peter Colt (Paterson, N.J.) to Nicholas Low (New York), 1795 May 14, 24
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Nicholas Low was a director of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures in Paterson, New Jersey, and became its governor in 1792. The Society sought to make Paterson a center of cotton manufacturing, but the venture was ultimately unsuccessful, and the Society folded in 1796.
Letter from Magrath & Higgins (Madeira) to Low & Wallace (New York), 1804 June 23
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Original + manuscript copy.
Letter from Post & Russell (New York) to Low & Wallace (New York), 1804 October 25, inclusive
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Post & Russell were agents for the ship Ophelia.
Letters (6) from Widow John Lang, Son & Co. (Bremen) to Low & Wallace (New York), 1805-1806, inclusive
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Dated 1805 August 5; 1806 March 4, May 2, May 8, May 16, August 2.
Letter from James Waring & Co. (London) to Low & Wallace (New York) [copy], 1806 April 29
Indenture, William Wallace and John Shaw, bound to the United States of America, $300.00., 1806 November 10
Letters (2) from Richard H. Wilcocks & Co. (Philadelphia) to Low & Wallace (New York), 1806 September 6, November 15, inclusive
Letter from Ramsey, Gatchell and Bancroft (Waterford, Ireland) to Low & Wallace (New York), 1807 October 7
Letter from Henrietta Low (Claverack, N.Y.) to her father, Nicholas Low (Ballston Springs, N.Y.), 1814 September 17
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Henrietta Low, writing to her father just a few days after the British attack on Fort McHenry of September 13-14, 1814, mentions how "We are all here anxious about the fate of Baltimore but the southern mail had not come in when the latest that we have had was sent to press."