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Ona "Oney" Judge Staines (c. 1773 – February 25, 1848) was an enslaved woman owned by the Washington family, first at the family's plantation at Mount Vernon and later, after George Washington became president, at the President's House in Philadelphia, then the nation's capital city.
Oney (born c. 1773) was a dower slave, the daughter of Betty, a seamstress, and Andrew Judge, a white English tailor who was an indentured servant at Mount Vernon in the early 1770s. Austin, about fifteen years Oney's senior, would have been her half-brother.
22 de dic. de 2021 · Oney Judge was the enslaved personal attendant of Martha Custis Washington when she ran away from the President’s House in Philadelphia in 1796. Born about 1773 at Mount Vernon, Judge began laboring in the mansion when she was ten years old.
Staines’s account of her dramatic quest for freedom represents a rare moment when the voice of a person (formerly) enslaved at Mount Vernon appears in the historical record. Ona Judge, often referenced by the Washingtons as Oney, was born at Mount Vernon around 1774.
11 de mar. de 2018 · Born at Mount Vernon, the Washingtons’ Virginia plantation, around 1773 (exact date not known) to an indentured servant named Andrew Judge and a slave name Betty, Ona “Oney” Judge was raised as a slave and began serving as the personal attendant to Martha Washington at the age of 10.
21 de oct. de 2019 · The Remarkable Story of Ona Judge. Lindsay M. Chervinsky. This article is part of the Slavery in the President’s Neighborhood initiative. Explore the Timeline. In April 1774, one of Martha Washington’s enslaved housemaids, Betty, gave birth at Mount Vernon to a daughter named Ona Judge. 1 Ona’s father was Andrew Judge, a white ...
Ona Judge Staines was born in April 1774. Her mother, Betty Davis, was an enslaved Black woman held by George and Martha Washington at their plantation, Mount Vernon, in Virginia. Her father, Andrew Judge, was a white indentured servant who worked on the same plantation.
