WI: A Smaller Pennsylvania, Bigger Maryland and Virginia

So, I was reading yesterday online and found out that Virginia originally claimed the area that contains Pittsburgh, PA, overlapping its claims with PA. Similarly, Marylands northern border was supposed to go to 40 N but Penn accidentally founded Philadelphia too far south. What if both of these disputes were settled in Pennsylvania's detriment with VA getting the OTL Pittsburgh area and Maryland getting its 40 N border, including Philadelphia? MD and PA also both claimed Delaware, so what if MD got that too?
 
West Virginia will be bigger and have a rather useful city if/when it splits off. State politics of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia will thus be rather different because of this, but I'm not sure what impact that might have overall.

Would be interesting to see the effect all of that would have on the Civil War.
 
I did a quick-and-dirty mspaint recently for a daydream about an American Revolution with larger colonies. It may be of some pertinence to this discussion.

Essentially, Maryland gets the patent on religious toleration and expands to take over OTL Pennsylvania, OTL New Jersey, OTL Delmarva Peninsula, and some of the OTL western counties of New York.

Virginia gets to add OTL the southwestern portion of Pennsylvania inscribed by the Ohio and Monongahela Rivers.
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To be fair, what PoD in particular are you considering? I'm assuming you mean one sometime around the revolution; this gets far easier as you go back farther towards the original charter. As it is, the best I could see is some sort of compromise arrangement. Say that the Virginians manage to arrive at Fort Pitt in greater numbers than the Pennsylvanians, enough to make the land truly disputable. Philadelphia would be practically impossible; it was the largest city in the colonies at the time of the revolution; there's no way that Pennsylvania would cede that to Maryland in that time frame.

And, instead of the capitol being established to the south, have it established in Pennsylvania. Since the Southerners didn't manage to get what they wanted in terms of the capitol (especially in view of how much influence Pennsylvania would have over the new capitol city) it is agreed that Pennsylvania will relinquish claims over both the Pittsburgh area along with the Maryland claim west of the Susquehanna (just eyeballing this right here). And, perhaps in recompense, Pennsylvania may get a larger chunk of New York than OTL or perhaps even some of Connecticut's western reserve. (or Pennsylvania could be kept smaller and it becomes a greater state made to serve the capitol, but I highly doubt that.

As for Delaware, you'd have to have Pennsylvania lose control over the counties and for Maryland to establish itself over them before independence. After that point, the chances of Maryland getting Delaware are ridiculously low (barring revolution et al). Although, they probably could get away with nipping at the edges.
 
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