Container List
Series I. Nicholas Low and Low & Wallace, 1794-1814
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
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| Box: 1 | Folder : 1 | Letter from Alexander Hamilton (Philadelphia) to Nicholas Low (New York)
Scope and ContentsTranscription: 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 |
1794 September 17 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 2 | Letters (2) from [_____] Harper (Paterson, N.J.) to Nicholas Low (New York)
Scope and ContentsNicholas 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. |
1795 May 14, 24 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 3 | Letter from Magrath & Higgins (Madeira) to Low & Wallace (New York)
Scope and ContentsOriginal + manuscript copy. |
1804 June 23 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 4 | Letter from Post & Russell (New York) to Low & Wallace (New York)
Scope and ContentsPost & Russell were agents for the ship Ophelia. |
1804 October 25 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 5 | Letters (6) from Widow John Lang, Son & Co. (Bremen) to Low & Wallace (New York)
Scope and ContentsDated 1805 August 5; 1806 March 4, May 2, May 8, May 16, August 2. |
1805-1806 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 6 | Letter from James Waring & Co. (London) to Low & Wallace (New York) [copy] |
1806 April 29 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 7 | Indenture, William Wallace and John Shaw, bound to the United States of America, $300.00. |
1806 November 10 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 8 | Letters (2) from Richard H. Wilcocks & Co. (Philadelphia) to Low & Wallace (New York) |
1806 September 6, November 15 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 9 | Letter from Ramsey, Gatchell and Bancroft (Waterford, Ireland) to Low & Wallace (New
York) |
1807 October 7 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 10 | Letter from Henrietta Low (Claverack, N.Y.) to her father, Nicholas Low (Ballston
Springs, N.Y.)
Scope and ContentsHenrietta 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." |
1814 September 17 | |
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