History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
* \ small broadside, containing a list of twenty-five names of persons who were " nominated by a N umber of respectable merchants and the " Body of Mechanics of this City, to be a Committee of Correspondence "for it, with the Xeighboring Colonies," may be seen in the Library of the New York Historical Society. It was evidently the result of a consultation of those who assumed to have been the leaders of the masses of the unfranchised inhabitants of tha City.
It is a noticeable fact, however, that that list of nominees, with only three of the names stricken from it, was incorporated in the larger list which was nominated by the Caucus.
''" Low belongeii to the Church of England, a person unbounded in "ambition, violent and turbulent in his disposition, remarkably obsti- " nate, with a good share of umlerstanding, extremely opinionated, fond "of being the head of a party, and never so well pleased as when "Chairman of a Committee or principal spokesman at a mob nieetiug. " His principles of government inclined to the republican system." -- (.Jones's l{ii.titry of .Veic York during the American Revuhdion, i.,3.5.)
Sir. Low, subseiiuently, became a Loyalist ; was stripped of his property, by confiscation ; was attainted ; and retired to England, where he died in 1791. -- (Sabine's Biographical Sketches of Loyal isls of the American lievotuli .n, original edition, 430 ;-- (Ac »(i»ie, second edition, ii., 32, 33.)
I'roceedinrit of the Caucus, printed on a broadside, for general circulation, a copy of which is in the Library of the Xew York Historical Society.