Juda was an enslaved worker during the Wight period of Tuckahoe. She is thought to have been born around 1770.
Upon Hezekiah Wight’s death in 1837, Juda, along with a handful of other enslaved workers, was freed in accordance with Wight’s will. On June 14, 1838 she was registered in the list of “free negroes” and was described as a “woman of color of yellow complexion about sixty eight years of age, about five feet high.” It was also noted that she had “no apparent mark or scar about her face, head or hands”.
