Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Cartwright Island" in English language version.
Though Gardiners Island has been owned by the family of the same name ever since it was granted to them by British royalty, Mr. Richardson said that he has done extensive research proving that Cartwright Island is not included in that space, and is therefore public land, owned by the people of the State of New York.
He told the town board that, in the past, when he has asked security guards manning the patrol boats for proof that the Goelet trust has legal control over the shoal, he has been told that there is a 17th century royal grant. 'They told me that the Gardiners own Gardiners Island all the way into the water as far as an ox can walk up to its belly without getting its belly wet. Something I have heard in the past from these security guys. I have always asked them for a deed in the past. They have never been able to produce it. Something that shows me this language that they are telling the public.' He called the ox belly explanation 'a fairytale.'
In addition to Gardiners Island, Mr. Pike's bill would authorize the Federal Government to acquire as part of the national monument three small islands nearby known as 'The Old Fort,' Cartwright Island and Hicks Island, as well as about 1,000 acres of the south shore of Long Island, running from Napeague Harbor to the Atlantic Ocean.
Mr. Rumbough vanished about a mile south of Cartwright Island at the bay's southern entrance after the twin ‐ engine racing boat in which he was riding capsized in choppy seas.
