Padouca

[Michael McCafferty]

One more brief thought:

This name is also seen in the Illinois Country in the 1700s. I would have to
dig around, but I'm pretty sure there was a Marie Padouca at Kaskaskia, among
a few others with this name.

Michael

Quoting Rory M Larson <rlarson at unlnotes.unl.edu>:

> Good catch, Ardis!  I got this off a web site for the town:
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>  The site was chosen by George Rogers Clark during the Revolution and the
>  first settlers probably arrived around 1821. The early settlement was
>  known as Pekin. In 1827 the town was laid out by Clark's brother William
>  who selected the name Paducah to honor the legendary Chickasaw leader,
>  Chief Paduke (or it may be the name of a group of Comanches known as the
>  Padoucas).
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> I'm inclined to suspect that the Chickasaw Chief Paduke is
> probably the basis for the name here.  In any case, it seems
> to be an arbitrary name, like one would expect the founders
> of a town to come up with.  If it does refer to the Padoucas,
> it is probably coming through the English of the western frontier,
> and not through local Algonquian.
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> 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.
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> > SOMEbody used the name a lot earlier: in the first decade of the 18c.
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> > have French Panetonka and Panetoca, and in 1718 "Pays des Apaches et
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> > Padoucas".
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