The United States of America was a union of thirteen different republics, each one with territorial claims over unorganized territory. Georgia and North Carolina had claims over the British territory of Transylvania, but that territory belonged to Britain according to the Treaty of Paris. Virginia had also claims on Transylvania, but most of the claims laid on the unorganized territories that laid between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes. Pennsylvania and New York had also claims on those territories. Vermont was disputed between New York and Massachusetts, and Maine between Massachusetts and New Hampshire.