The Solved Mystery of Martha Elizabeth (Lizzy) Lee, the Black Mistress of the 7th Vice President of the United States of America, John C. Calhoun.
As a very young child, I remember having a major obsession with the pictures of fictional Kings and Queens from the card deck of my parents’ playing cards. Interestingly, I’ve spent much of my life thinking, maybe, I was just fascinated by the fancy array of colors that made up the armor designs which symbolized Royalty.
Nevertheless, somehow, I always knew that my unusual captivation with Royal figures on playing cards was so much deeper than I could imagine. Surprisingly, it took me a few decades to figure out a reason for my unexplained attraction.
Decades later, after conducting countless hours of research while studying my family’s history, I was then shockingly linked all the way back to the beginnings of the United States of America and to the Coat of Arms, which identified the European linage line of my family.
Things were made so much clearer, after I experienced a spiritual awakening in the early days of 2020. Only months later, in May, I founded a nonprofit organization called the Men Of Color Having Answers Foundation (MOCHA), to discover solutions to end generational obstacles faced by Black Americans.
Although I had created a nonprofit organization, unfortunately, I was without a clue, as to where I should begin my mission of change.
Eventually, I began my mission of change by researching my family’s very concealed and well guarded history in the state of South Carolina. After conducting extensive research, and once I had gathered enough facts, I soon concluded that the 7th Vice President of the United States of America, John C. Calhoun, undeniably played a role in the lives of my immediate ancestors in Clemson, South Carolina.
Incredibly, my suspicions about the family of VP Calhoun and their connections to my ancestors were later confirmed.
Shockingly enough, I would later verify my family’s hidden truth through an independent author by the name of Antoinette Lee, who was also the grandchild of my grandmother, Martha Elizabeth Lee.
In the New York Times feature below, Antoinette Lee, discusses how she found out that John C. Calhoun was her third great grandfather. Remarkably, the 7th Vice President, John C. Calhoun was also my 7th generation great grandfather.
What happened?⬇️
Frustratingly, history has only offered the very vague notion that John C. Calhoun had a secret love affair with a young captured Cherokee Indian girl, named Martha Liza Lee. Disappointedly, at one time, that was about as much information as there was available to me about my grandmother, Liza.
Unfortunately, nothing more was said about the history of my grandmother, nor was there any information regarding where she had came from.
Dreadfully, it seemed as though much of the details surrounding the family background of my grandmother Martha Elizabeth Liza Lee had been purposely omitted from the storied history of one of the most powerful politicians of early American history.
Sadly, the brutal rape of my grandmother, by John C. Calhoun was the only other information that surfaced about her past, prior to giving birth to her first of several children by the 7th Vice President of the United State of America.
After my grandmother Martha Elizabeth Liza Lee had been raped by Calhoun, her young child NANCY was later separated from her; enslaved, and sold to another slave holder after tensions were heightened about her presence in the home of the Calhoun Mansion at Fort Hill.
Years later, after their traumatic separation, the emotional reunion of my grandmother Martha Liza Lee and her daughter Nancy Washington Legree at an area Picnic was truly Heartbreaking⬇️
How did I find conclusive evidence that undeniably identified the parents of my grandmother Martha Elizabeth Lee, and solve the 200 year old mystery?
After learning the full name of my grandmother Martha, I then conducted extensive research on prominent early American families that frequented South Carolina during the during and before the Vice Presidency of my grandfather, John C. Calhoun. In particular, families of early American Influence, who had enough power to supply house servants to the sitting Vice President.
In 1825, shortly after a huge scandal was made public about a well-known politician from a very powerful and influential family named, Henry "Black-Horse Harry" Lee IV (28 May 1787 – 30 January 1837), Vice President, John C. Calhoun did Lee a huge favor by getting him a job at the Post Office. During the time when Calhoun used his political power to gift Henry Lee IV a job, due to Henry’s actions, his political career was almost over and despite being well known, no one would give him an opportunity.
What did Henry "Black-Horse Harry" Lee IV, do that caused his political career to abruptly come to an end?
Henry Lee IV had an affair with his wife’s enslaved Black sister, Elizabeth McCarty, and the two of them had a child together who just mysteriously vanished from history.
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So now that we understand that my grandfather, Vice President John C. Calhoun did a huge favor for Henry "Black-Horse Harry" Lee IV, one that no one else was willing to do, at that time, what event of major importance happened in the life of Calhoun within that same year of 1825?
John C. Calhoun moved into the mansion at Fort Hill Plantation in 1825, and although Henry Lee IV had already lost the majority of his slaves to debtors, his daughter Martha Elizabeth Liza Lee might have been one of Henry’s last slaves to be sold. There is good possibility that my grandmother may have been relocated to another Lee family plantation as a baby, before being sold to John C. Calhoun.
Can you provide the direct link that connects John C. Calhoun to Henry Lee IV?
After thoroughly conducting research on the history of Henry "Black-Horse Harry" Lee IV, I have concluded that there are way too many correlations to list that positively link my (8x) great-grandmother Martha Elizabeth Lee to the colonial Lee family of Virginia. Everything from the names of family, to specific dates of certain events, are all easily verified connections.
One important thing that is not discussed nearly enough in America is, how the majority of prominent White European men of early American history had kids with enslaved Black women, who many times were already located on the inside of the Plantation as house servants. There are too many untold stories to mention.
However, the barbaric rape of enslaved Black women by European colonists is a savagery issue that predates the establishment of the United States.
The reality of the situation in early America in which I also discovered through research is, that the immoral raping of Black women was a generational cycle of terror that was passed down for centuries, since the first arrivals of Europeans in the Americas.
After all, the lewd actions of Henry “ Black Horse Harry” Lee (1787-1837), was inherited from his father Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee (1756-1818) who also had an affair with those he enslaved.
Decades before my grandmother Martha Elizabeth Liza (Lizzy) Lee, “Light Horse Harry Lee” first enslaved and raped my grandmother’s mom, Kizzie, and had at least one child with her.
Even the first president of the United States of America, George Washington, who is rumored to have never produced any children, is said to have at least one hidden Black child named West Ford. ⬇️
After George Washington’s death, the nephew of Washington invited West Ford to move into the Stratford Hall Plantation. He also gifted West Ford with over 100 acres of land. The gratitude paid by the oldest nephew of George Washington, Bushrod Washington would not have been considered, had West Ford not been the son of George Washington. ⬇️
The findings of my American History discovery Ultimately
Connected my lineage all the way back to the original drafter of the Declaration of Independence, and the two brothers
(Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee) who were the only pair of brothers to have signed of the Declaration of Independence.
Prior to the establishment of the Declaration of Independence, on June 7, 1776 Richard Henry Lee presented the Lee Resolution, which officially announced that the 13 colonies were free & independent States that were separated from England. On July 2, 1776 Congress passed the Lee Resolution. Shortly afterwards, the Lee Resolution was renamed the Declaration of Independence and signed on July 4, 1776, and the United States of America was founded.
Who could have imagined that exactly 250 years after one of my first known grandfathers, Richard Henry Lee had presented the Lee Resolution; in September 2020, a descendant of his, a great-grandson would write the LEGREE Resolution which would honor the memory of a formerly enslaved 105-year-old woman, Nancy Washington Legree. My grandmother Nancy, who was the daughter of Martha Elizabeth Lee, and the Vice President of the United States of America, 7th Vice President, John C. Calhoun. My grandmother Nancy, was also the great-granddaughter of Richard Henry Lee.
Although I had received a unanimous decision in which the entire Clemson City Council voted in support of the Legree Resolution (2020), five years later, Clemson City Council in South Carolina never officially followed through with placing the name of my grandmother Nancy Washington Legree, on the “unnamed” bridge, despite this.
(above) Picture of my bridge interview with FOX in 2020.
Bridge Interview:
Make no mistake about it, shortly after I named the unnamed bridge located in the Calhoun community in dedication of the memory of grandmother Nancy, all communication abruptly stopped between myself, the new mayor of Clemson, SC (Robert Halfacre) and the Clemson City Council. This is because Clemson soon figured out that my very deep history goes far beyond the establishment of America, and proceeding with the naming of the bridge in the far Deep “Jim Crow” South, would only unveil the Truthful (identities) identities of Black Americans, and also confirm that our ancestors were already here before the arrival of Europeans to America.
Since then, the state of South Carolina, the cities of Greenville and Clemson, along with area law enforcement, and other public officials within the state have all tried Blackball and silence my organization, The Men Of Color Having Answers Foundation (MOCHA), by any means.
This is why I really need your assistance, so that I am able to bring forth a pivotal and liberating Truth to the people. A Truth that is missing from the history books, yet, one that is instrumental to understanding the dark history of America.
ONLY The Truth has power to Set Us free!
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Photo Above (left) Andrew Peppers (Right) my formerly enslaved grandmothers, Mary Wright Legree (Top) Nancy Washington Legree (Bottom) my grandfather John C. Calhoun (Middle).
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