Scarouady was an Oneida

Oneida tribe

The Oneida are a Native American/First Nations people and are one of the five founding nations of the Iroquois Confederacy in the area of upstate New York...

 leader at Logstown

Logstown

The riverside village of Logstown was a significant Native American settlement in Western Pennsylvania and the site of the 1752 signing of the treaty of friendship between the Ohio Company and the Amerindians occupying the region in the years leading up to the...

. He was called Monacatuatha or Monakaduto by the Lenape

Lenape

The Lenape are an Algonquian group of Native Americans of the Northeastern Woodlands. They are also called Delaware Indians. As a result of the American Revolutionary War and later Indian removals from the eastern United States, today the main groups live in Canada, where they are enrolled in the...

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Scarouady was half-king, along with Tanacharison

Tanacharison

Tanacharison or Tanaghrisson was an American Indian leader who played a pivotal role in the beginning of the French and Indian War. He was known to European-Americans as the Half King, a title also used to describe several other historically important American Indian leaders...

, over Iroquois

Iroquois

The Iroquois , also known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the Longhouse", are an association of several tribes of indigenous people of North America...

 and Iroquois allies in the Ohio-valley region. They both disliked the encrouchment of the French

French people

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 into the area, and in 1753 Scarouady met with officials of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

 and Virginia

Virginia

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 to try and convince them to take action against the French. The situation was so bad that in 1754 Scarouady moved to Aughwick

Wells Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania

Wells Township is a township in Fulton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 529 at the 2000 census. Wells Township was initially settled in 1760. It was originally known as Aughwick Township when it was incorporated in 1849...

 to escape the French.

Scarouady was a member of the Braddock expedition

Braddock expedition

The Braddock expedition, also called Braddock's campaign or, more commonly, Braddock's Defeat, was a failed British military expedition which attempted to capture the French Fort Duquesne in the summer of 1755 during the French and Indian War. It was defeated at the Battle of the Monongahela on...

 in 1754. Scarouady was a major orator and worked with the aid of William Johnson

Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet

Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Irish official of the British Empire. As a young man, Johnson came to the Province of New York to manage an estate purchased by his uncle, Admiral Peter Warren, which was located amidst the Mohawk, one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League...

 to keep the Shawnee

Shawnee

The Shawnee, Shaawanwaki, Shaawanooki and Shaawanowi lenaweeki, are an Algonquian-speaking people native to North America. Historically they inhabited the areas of Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Western Maryland, Kentucky, Indiana, and Pennsylvania...

 and the Lenape on the side of the British

British people

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 in the French and Indian War

French and Indian War

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The borough

Borough (Pennsylvania)

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 of Monaca, Pennsylvania

Monaca, Pennsylvania

Monaca is a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States along the Ohio River, northwest of Pittsburgh. Monaca was first incorporated as Phillipsburg in 1840, and had been known by that name since the 1820s. In 1892, the name of the borough was changed to Monaca in honor of the Native...

, was named in honor of Monacatootha.http://www.bchistory.org/beavercounty/BeaverCountyCommunities/Monaca/Monaca.html

Sources

• short article on Scarouady
• Shannon, Timothy John. Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early Frontier. p. 150