Petquotting (pronounced "pay cutting" ) was the name that the Moravian Missionaries gave to their two settlements on the Huron River (Ohio).
The first Moravian Christian Indian village of Petquotting was established in 1787,[1] on the east side of the Huron River, and just north of what is now Mason Road, Milan Twp., Erie County, Ohio.
This second village of Petquotting was abandoned about 1808, with the coming of the new pioneer Caucasian settlers from the Eastern U.S.
The word 'petquotting' originated from a Native-American word "pay-ka-tunk" or "petquattunk", meaning a "high round hill", which referred to a specific, currently unknown, location somewhere in the general vicinity of the Huron River (Ohio) (and perhaps as far as 10 miles distant from later-day Milan village).
This earliest "petquattunk" was a Native American-Indian fortified village, and was said to be several miles south of Lake Erie, but (according to the Moravian Archives) was high enough to view Lake Erie from that hill.