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Oney Judge. Ona " Oney " Judge Staines ( c. 1773 – February 25, 1848) was an enslaved biracial woman who was 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. [1]
- Eliza Staines, Nancy Staines, Will Staines
- Jack Staines
- Austin (half-brother), Tom Davis (half-brother), Betty Davis (half-sister), Delphy (half-sister)
Dec 22, 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. After George Washington was elected president in 1789, she accompanied the family to New York and then ...
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. Washington does not seem to have recognized Oney as being Judge's child, which may ...
This video was created by the New-York Historical Society Teen Leaders in collaboration with the Untold project. 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 ...
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Ona Judge was one of nine enslaved people brought from Mount Vernon to work in the President's House in Philadelphia. The house was torn down in 1832, but the exhibit there today includes Judge's story. NPS photo. On May 21, 1796, enslaved maid Ona Judge seized her freedom from the President's House in Philadelphia while George and Martha ...
1846 interview with Ona Judge Staines. by the Rev. Benjamin Chase. Letter to the editor, The Liberator, January 1, 1847..As quoted in Slave Testimony, Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies, John W. Blassingame, ed. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1977), pp. 248-50.
Mar 11, 2018 · Ona “Oney” Judge (1773-1848) As a former slave in George Washington’s household, Ona “Oney” Judge is best remembered for her escape to New Hampshire. 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 ...
