Talk:Port-au-peck, New Jersey
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[edit]Pecq is a suburb west of Paris, on the Seine, adjacent to St Germaine en Laye. Its name is shown as "Le Porte au Pec" on a map of 1650 ("Le diocese est divisé en archipretrés, ou doyennés ruraux, la prevosté en balliages, ou prevostés subalternes, et l'eslection en chastellenies" par Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville (1600-1667) cartographe ; Abraham Peyrounin (1620-1666) graveur; chez l'Auteur et chez P. Mariette, Paris; éditions : 1650-1680.) that can be seen at http://histoire-vesinet.org/cartes-16et17e.htm .
A village under the name Aupec dates from 704 CE according to https://www.ville-lepecq.fr/decouvrir-le-pecq/lhistoire-du-pecq/1300-ans-dhistoire/ , which seems to imply that the name became Le Pecq in 1822 when it became a commune.
Huguenots, a French Protestant sect, were persecuted in the seventeenth century, and many fled the country. The province of New Jersey was one of the places where they settled.
What I think we need is a source that can tie Huguenots in New Jersey to settlers from Pecq. The Monmouth County (NJ) place names Allaire and Freneau have been traced to Huguenot settlers, and numerous specific settlers are named in "Huguenot Settlers and Land Owners in Monmouth Co., N.J.", The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, January 1889. But from what place in France did they come?
I leave this "original research" for someone to follow up on in print. I have never seen an explanation of the name Port au Peck, New Jersey. JoeBrennan (talk) 21:34, 3 May 2020 (UTC)