Suggest you see the Newsday article "United States vs. Maine Rhode
Island and New York Boundary Case"  Argued Nov. 26, 1984 | Decided Feb.
19, 1985 at
  http://www.newsday.com/extras/lihistory/vault/hs107cv1.htm

This explains court ruling in murky detail that I will not dare to
explain.

Shoreline Mapping Web Site Bibliography may also be helpful at
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/shoreline/biblio.html

SHORE AND SEA BOUNDARIES Volume Three  at
http://216.239.39.100/
search?q=cache:OTZ7UJPBugwC:chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/shalowitz/
preface.pdf+new+york+rhode+island+Maritime+Boundaries&hl=en&ie=UTF-8



Clifton Patrick
Town of Chester Historian
119 Brookside Ave.
Chester, NY 10918

direct phone/fax  845-469-7645



On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 16:32 America/New_York, Scott Monje wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Here is a question for enthusiasts of legal nuance. Can anyone help me
> find the state boundaries in Long Island Sound? I understand that the
> islands of the sound belong to New York (having been granted to the
> duke of York in 1664). Does that mean that the water and submerged
> land of the sound also belong to New York, or are there distinctions
> as there are in the New York-New Jersey boundaries in New York Bay? A
> 1985 Supreme Court decision that I came across declared the Long
> Island Sound "internal waters" and thus within the jurisdiction of the
> adjacent states, but it didn't go into any details regarding the New
> York-Connecticut boundary as it was concerned with establishing the
> U.S. boundary at the east end of the sound. It set the U.S. border
> from the North Fork of Long Island to Watch Hill Point, Rhode Island
> (or, more precisely, three miles seaward from that line). Can we
> assume that the New York-Rhode Island state boundary is at the
> midpoint of that line?
>
> Many thanks for any guidance you can give,
> Scott Monje
>
>