John Skenandoa | |
Birth: | 1706? Pennsylvania, United States |
Death: | 11 March 1816 Oneida County, New York, United States |
Age: | 109/110 years? |
Country: | USA |
Longevity claimant |
John Skenandoa (1706? – 11 March 1816) was an American longevity claimant from Pennsylvania. He was born in 1706 into the Iroquoian-speaking Susquehannock people (also called Conestoga), located in present-day eastern Pennsylvania. He was adopted into the Oneida people, one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. During the Seven Years' War (also called the French and Indian War in the United States), Chief Skenandoa favored the British against the French and led the Oneida in their support in central New York. He was said to have saved German colonists in German Flatts, in the Mohawk Valley, from a massacre. During the next decades, he formed more alliances with the ethnic German and British colonists in central and western New York.
John Skenandoa died in Oneida County, New York, United States on 11 March 1816 at the claimed age of 109/110 years.
The Oneida performer-composer Joanne Shenandoah (1957–2021) was a descendant of Chief Shenandoah.