I learned something today: Ona Judge, Martha Washington’s personal maid, escaped from the presidential mansion in Philadelphia in 1796. She learned that Martha intended to give her as a wedding gift to her grandson.
A Girl from Mount Vernon
Ona Judge was born around 1773 on George Washington’s plantation in Mount Vernon, Virginia. Her mother, Betty, was a slave seamstress, and her father, Andrew Judge, was a white English tailor. Although Ona wa…
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I learned something today: Ona Judge, Martha Washington’s personal maid, escaped from the presidential mansion in Philadelphia in 1796. She learned that Martha intended to give her as a wedding gift to her grandson.
A Girl from Mount Vernon
Ona Judge was born around 1773 on George Washington’s plantation in Mount Vernon, Virginia. Her mother, Betty, was a slave seamstress, and her father, Andrew Judge, was a white English tailor. Although Ona wa…