Juliana Hudson was born in Massachusetts in about 1660. Later a resident of Perquimans Precinct, North Carolina, she married John Taylor in about 1684. After Taylor died in 1695, she married Benjamin Laker, a member of the North Carolina Council who died in 1701. Early court records for the area demonstrate that Juliana was active and independent, appearing as a litigant in several cases between 1691 and 1714. In 1705 she was accused of murdering her indentured servant Sanders, an American Indian. In 1720 Juliana Laker helped her daughter Joanna and her son-in-law Paul Palmer keep an enslaved man named Sambo hidden. She died in Perquimans in about January 1738.