Borderless? We can be borderless...

"State of New York, Report of the Regents of the University on the Boundaries of the State of New York." Transmitted to the Legislature May 28th, 1873" from Albany: The Argus Company, Printers 1874" which resulted from a resolution of the Senate, adopted April 19, 1867, submitted by the Chancellor of the University, John V. L. Pruyn. I found it wondering about the "Dongan Patent" which I was told gives the State the property below the high tide line in and any other underwater property. Part of a "folk legend" is that legally one may walk down a beach from one place to the next by walking below the tide line. Another problem in wetlands that it could be a part of is that the whole legal system, it's said, adjusted to "neighbor" relations; i.e., the tree limb fell on my property, not the jetty 1/2 a mile away has scoured out my beachfront (a legal practice problem on rivers too, down river upriver though not adjacent and especially when whole States are involved, a reel-to-reel tape I pulled out of the garbage at Hofstra Law School (William Kunstler and Bella Abzug's alma mater) discusses the problem of "Federal inter pleader" cases when it occurs) Anyway I was interested in it, and it goes into when the Duke of York had jurisdiction and his holdings included Pemaquid now in Maine.