This is one of several memorials or petitions sent by Frederick Philipse III, this one to the "Commissioners appointed for enquiring into the Losses and Services of the American Loyalist." These memorials were attempts by the Tory Philipse to reclaim property and economic losses as well as those confiscated as a result of his choice to be a Loyalist during the American Revolution. His family continued to petition into the early decades of the 19th century.
