![]() ![]() Though Judge was predominantly of European heritage, she was born into slavery under the premise of partus sequitur ventrem. Her mother, Betty, was a slave, and her father, Andrew Judge, was a white English tailor working as an indentured servant at Mount Vernon. Judge was born about 1773 at Mount Vernon, the estate of George Washington and his family. ![]() Life of George Washington: The Farmer by Junius Brutus Stearnes ( c. Though she was never freed, the Washington family did not want to risk public backlash in forcing her to return to Virginia and after years of failing to persuade her to return, the family stopped pressing her to go back. She fled to New Hampshire, where she married, had children, and converted to Christianity. In her early twenties, she absconded, becoming a fugitive slave, after learning that Martha Washington had intended to transfer ownership of her to her granddaughter, known to have a horrible temper. ![]() ![]() Ona " Oney" Judge Staines ( c. 1773 – February 25, 1848) was an enslaved woman of mixed races 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. ![]()
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