AHC: Change the East Coast states' borders with a POD of 1770 or later

How could the Thirteen Original states' borders be changed with a POD of 1770 or later?

At least half of them.

The OTL changes of Maine and Vermont do not count since the borders were already there. West Virginia does.
 
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Well, here is a start:

Massachusetts:
Retains control over Maine and/or has the Merrimack River border dispute settled in New Hampshire's favor.

New York: James Clinton and Simeon DeWitt survey the lands around Erie correctly, giving New York the Erie Triangle.

Pennsylvania: Loses the Erie Triangle. It will protest around 1790 when it realizes this fact, but the momentum to transfer the land will be long gone.

Connecticut: Somehow able to better manage its funds, the state is not forced to request forgiveness on their loans in 1796. The state retains control of the Western Reserve.

New Hampshire:
Either Vermont is folded back into New Hampshire, as the state wanted, or New Hampshire loses Indian Springs during peace negotiations with Great Britain.

Virginia:
The state is more indebted to the federal government due to poor administration. This combined with more successful debates up north causes Virginia to cede modern day West Virginia.
 
What I meant is creating brand new borders within the areas of the thirteen original states that were already settled and not just claimed in 1770.

For example, West Virginia, or DC, would satisfy the requirement. Creating an upstate New York would also. Or transferring Virginia's exclave to Delaware or Maryland.
 
Well, here is a start:

Massachusetts:
Retains control over Maine and/or has the Merrimack River border dispute settled in New Hampshire's favor.

New York: James Clinton and Simeon DeWitt survey the lands around Erie correctly, giving New York the Erie Triangle.

Pennsylvania: Loses the Erie Triangle. It will protest around 1790 when it realizes this fact, but the momentum to transfer the land will be long gone.

Connecticut: Somehow able to better manage its funds, the state is not forced to request forgiveness on their loans in 1796. The state retains control of the Western Reserve.

New Hampshire:
Either Vermont is folded back into New Hampshire, as the state wanted, or New Hampshire loses Indian Springs during peace negotiations with Great Britain.

Virginia:
The state is more indebted to the federal government due to poor administration. This combined with more successful debates up north causes Virginia to cede modern day West Virginia.

It wasn't they surveyed it wrong, they petitioned Congress to let them have the land for a Lake Erie Port.
 
It wasn't they surveyed it wrong, they petitioned Congress to let them have the land for a Lake Erie Port.

My mistake, I just did some cursory Googling for my post.

What I meant is creating brand new borders within the areas of the thirteen original states that were already settled and not just claimed in 1770.

For example, West Virginia, or DC, would satisfy the requirement. Creating an upstate New York would also. Or transferring Virginia's exclave to Delaware or Maryland.

I do not think I am understanding you. Does my post fulfill the requirement?
 
How about this: the british win the American Revolution, and to quell what they perceive as colony nationalism they reorganize the borders of the colonies arbitrarily, it doesn't help and the colonies rebel again and become the united states.
 
I do not think I am understanding you. Does my post fulfill the requirement?
Partially yes and partially no.

The Erie Triangle was in barely settled or frontier areas and the border already existed as the two states' claims.

The Vermont border already existed as the claims of NH, NY, and the Vermonters.

The other proposals you made would work.
 
Well, here is a start:

Massachusetts:
Retains control over Maine and/or has the Merrimack River border dispute settled in New Hampshire's favor.

New York: James Clinton and Simeon DeWitt survey the lands around Erie correctly, giving New York the Erie Triangle.

Pennsylvania: Loses the Erie Triangle. It will protest around 1790 when it realizes this fact, but the momentum to transfer the land will be long gone.

Connecticut: Somehow able to better manage its funds, the state is not forced to request forgiveness on their loans in 1796. The state retains control of the Western Reserve.

New Hampshire:
Either Vermont is folded back into New Hampshire, as the state wanted, or New Hampshire loses Indian Springs during peace negotiations with Great Britain.

Virginia:
The state is more indebted to the federal government due to poor administration. This combined with more successful debates up north causes Virginia to cede modern day West Virginia.

Meanwhile, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia stay with the British Crown.
 
How could the Thirteen Original states' borders be changed with a POD of 1770 or later?

At least half of them.

The OTL changes of Maine and Vermont do not count since the borders were already there. West Virginia does.

1-2) The Eastern Shore of Maryland is transferred to Delaware. (Failed by 1 vote in the Maryland state senate, circa 1835.)

3) No civil war - West Virginia does separate from Virginia, but does not include the three counties in the lower Shenandoah Valley which OTL were included because they were under Union occupation.

4-5) The New York-Pennsylvania border is surveyed a bit differently, and the eastern border of Pennsylvania's "Erie panhandle" is a few km to the east of OTL.

6-7) South Carolina cedes its western claim to North Carolina. The northern border of Georgia and southern border of North Carolina (and Tennessee) is about 40-50 km S out of OTL.
 
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