in 1810, sanger was one of many claimants that sought relief from the legislature to settle a dispute over the title to of land arising after the land was omitted from a 1793 deed transferring the land to philip schuyler from the heirs of william cosby. in 1811, they petitioned the legislature again to restrict the commissioners tasked with settling the dispute, between cosby patent and coxe's or freemason's patent, to just defining the boundary line.