Ona Judge
Fugitive enslaved person · United States · On the map · Lived 1773 to 1848 · aged 75
Ona Judge Staines, also known as Oney Maria Judge Staines, was a biracial enslaved woman who escaped from George Washington's presidential household, and eluded capture by him and by Martha Washington's relatives.
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![Life of George Washington: The Farmer, a portrait depicting George Washington and Mount Vernon by Junius Brutus Stearns, c. 1853. This painting shows an idealized version of plantation work, far removed from the reality of the harsh conditions endured by the enslaved.[3]](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Junius_Brutus_Stearns_-_George_Washington_as_Farmer_at_Mount_Vernon.jpg/500px-Junius_Brutus_Stearns_-_George_Washington_as_Farmer_at_Mount_Vernon.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Life of George Washington: The Farmer, a portrait depicting George Washington and Mount Vernon by Junius Brutus Stearns, c. 1853. This painting shows an idealized version of plantation work, far removed from the reality of the harsh conditions endured by the enslaved.[3]
Washington's Residence, High Street, a lithograph in Annals of Philadelphia, an 1830 book by John Fanning Watson
John Langdon House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where, over a September 1799 dinner, Burwell Bassett Jr. revealed his plan to kidnap Judge
Greenland in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, where Judge married her husband Jack Staines in January 1797
Silhouette portrait of Judge at 5th Street/Independence Hall station.About this person
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United States
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1773 to 1848 · aged 75