Definizione

• is referred to in Roger Wil- liams' treatise entitled A Key into the Language of America, published in Lon- don in 1643, as follows (cap. xxvi.) :

  "Their white [money] they call Wom- pam, which signifies white; their blacke Suekauhock, Sucki signifying blacke. Both amongst themselves, as also the English and Dutch, the blacke peny is two pence white."

  On May 22, 1661, the law authorizing the use of Wampum as legal tender in New England was repealed, and gradually the coinage of silver drove it out of circu- lation. See Roanoake.

Fonte

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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