Ongewasgone was a Sachem of the Huron people during the mid-18th century. During the French and Indian War, he allied his people with the French. In 1757, the warrior Magua brought the captive sisters Cora and Alice Munro and the British Army officer Duncan Heyward to Ongewasgone's village, intending to sell Heyward and sacrifice the sisters to his own slain daughters, but the Mahican Nathaniel Poe came to the Huron village and persuaded Ongewasgone that Magua was a treaty-breaker, and that the French would not remain friends of the Huron forever. Ongewasgone decided to spare Heyward, have Alice become Magua's wife, and burn Cora as a sacrifice, but Heyward volunteered to substitute himself for Cora to regain her love in death, and Ongewasgone had Poe and Cora go in peace as Heyward was sacrificed.