Oney "Ona" Judge (c.1773—February 25, 1848) – known as Oney Judge Staines after marriage, was an enslaved African-American servant on George Washington's plantation, Mount Vernon, in Virginia. Beginning in 1789, she worked as a personal servant to First Lady Martha Washington in the presidential households in New York City and Philadelphia. With the aid of Philadelphia's free black community, Judge escaped to freedom in 1796, and lived as a fugitive slave in New Hampshire for the rest of her life.
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1 January 1773 Mount Vernon, Virginia
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Died |
25 February 1848 (aged 75)
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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