Tag: Isaac Low

Posted on October 31, 2019October 30, 2019

Isaac Roosevelt: Merchant, Federalist, Banker, New Yorker

On Saturday September 17, 1938 New York governor Herbert H. Lehman and 5,000 others assembled in Poughkeepsie to observe the sesquicentennial of the Empire State’s ratification of the U.S. Constitution. One hundred and fifty years previously delegates had gathered in that Hudson Valley hamlet to debate whether New York should ratify that document and thus […]

by Keith Muchowski

Posted on February 21, 2018February 26, 2018

Patriots Turned Loyalist—The Experiences of Joseph Galloway and Isaac Low

In the American Revolution, as with most other wars, the winners write the history. As such, we have the term “loyalist” for those colonists who remained loyal to the crown, while the winners claimed the term “patriots.” To give an idea how loyalists were regarded during the era, one definition I found said a loyalist […]

by Richard J. Werther