Greenland Remembers Ona Marie Judge Staines

The Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail and the Greenland, NH Historical Society joined to honor the legacy of Ona Marie Judge Staines a slave owned by George and Martha Washington who heroically escaped her owners and settled in Greenland, NH where she died in 1848. The accompanying text was delivered in a speech by Dennis Malloy to the NH House of Representatives and placed in the permanent Journal on May 1, 2025.