History of the Town of Plymouth From Its First Settlement in 1620, to the Year 1832 By James Thacher

History of the Town of Plymouth From Its First Settlement in 1620, to the Year 1832 By James Thacher: "1741 On the Sabbath March 30th the town of Plymouth was alarmed during divine service by Joseph Wampum a native who gave information that eight Spaniards had landed at his house situate four miles distant from Buzzard's Bay War existed at that time between England and Spain This notice therefore justly excited an universal panic The drums beat to arms and the militia were ordered out It proved however to be a false alarm and has ever been called Wampum's war" (I hope to use this historic oddity, in a column suggesting that the cry for a new mayoral form of government in Plymouth is just another, Wampum's War.)