57. FRONTIER SETTLEMENTS ARE ATTACKED Fine content war-date A.L.S. of John Rees, 1p. large 4to., North[umberlan]d County" [Pennsylvania], May 3, 1781 with integral address leaf to JOHN LUKENS (1720-1789) Surveyor General of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Apparently terrified, Rees writes, in part: "...Our county is breaking fast, before we got assistance our frontiers were obliged to break, and so we continue driving up leaving the county we have so frequent alarms, & our people a butchering and captivating, that I dread the total destruction of the county without something turns up and not get seen...we found...people here hard to deal with, on acct. of the Troublesome times...". The Pennsylvania and New York frontiers in 1781 were alive with alarms warning of loyalist and Indian attacks, causing many to abandon frontier settlements. Light foxing usual folds, else very good. $500-600