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Sir,                    Philadelphia Septr. 17th. 1776
    We have the honor to inclose you the answer of Pennsylvania to the proposed temporary boundary between the Commonwealth of Virginia and this State and also our reply to the same. We need not observe to your Excellency on the manner in which the question is begged by this answer supposing that our Cession of the Charter’d bounds of Pennsylvania, gives an exclusive right to this country of saying where those bounds shall extend to.
    That the line proposed by the answer is a proper one, seems very problematical, and is likely to produce a great expence as running the true one; and therefore we submit it, whether ‘twill not be best to run the true line at this time, which will quiet all disputes on this subject forever.
    We beg leave to refer you to Mr. Jefferson, lately returned to Virginia, who has conversed much with the Philosopher Rittenhouse on this subject.
    We are, with much respect, your Excellencies most obedient and very humble servants,
              G. Wythe
              Richard Henry Lee
              Rancis Lightfoot Lee