Padouca

[are2 at buffalo.edu]

For what it's worth, there is a Padukah, Kentucky.  (All quilters know
this, it is the holy grail of quilting.)
That's a bit East.

>
> SOMEbody used the name a lot earlier: in the first decade of the 18c.
> we
> have French Panetonka and Panetoca, and in 1718 "Pays des Apaches et
> des
> Padoucas".
>
> Alan
>
>