The original charters had few western boundaries, & the two key colonies in this, Pennsylvania & Virginia still considered to Ohio territory within their jurisdiction. This was one of the items of contention that led to the Revolt. The crown was doing nothing to police the region. No Red Coats were to be found on the frontier protecting the farms & villages. Since the end of the Seven Years War the legislatures of the Carolinias, Virginia, Pennsylvania, had been bearing the cost and effort of keeping militia active against the Shawnee & allies fighting the frontier settlements. The combined military campaign of Pennsylvania and Virginia in 1774, that led to the battle of Point Pleasant, was the perfect storm of contrast. While the colonial administrations struggled to mount a counter to the growing threat in the Ohio region, the Crowns soldiers were entirely occupied enforcing tax levies in the coastal cities for the coffers in London. Whatever the legal details were the citizens of much of Pennsylvania & Virginia considered any Royal claim to be administering the Ohio region a joke covering a theft.