Padouca

[Rory M Larson]

Good catch, Ardis!  I got this off a web site for the town:


 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).





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.

Rory





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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.

>
> 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
>
>