My research for slave ancestors in the family of Hutchinson, Johnston, Keen, Cave -- takes me to interesting places. I'm going to try and make the Hutchinson via the KEEN family connection and hope I don't loose you...cause it picks up in Boone Co., MO. When I ordered some papers on the Hutchinsons from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection -- there were names I couldn't connect... but somehow LLOYD, ISRAELL, KEENE, HUTCHINSON and THOMAS connected. The Hutchinsons and Thomas relatives show up in the will of Capt. William H. Johnston m. Rachel Spears. [The KYN or KEEN mentioned in his will is: Sarah Keen wife of James S. Keen of Audrain Co., MO] in addition to the Keenes and I was racking my brain trying to figure out what the hell was going on. All these folks and the same names used in each line over and over again. I compiled will and probate listing from Boone Co., MO connecting the Johnston, Keen, Thomas, Prewitt and Branham families and wanted to make sense of who I was dealing with -- they all have Bourbon Co ties -- as well as ties in Pennsylvannia -- Pittsburg. My focus is the JOHNSTON & HUTCHINSON families and their allied folks. [If you are interested in my list; I compiled it using the Wills and Administration records of Boone CO., MO by Mrs. E.E. Evans and Mrs. J. F. Thompson 1932. You can order the book from the Genealogical Society of Central Missouri. Bottom line; Bourbon Co., KY native Benjamin Franklin Hutchinson -- son of William Hutchinson and Margaret Hickman Hutchinson; brother to Margaret Hutchinson who married William H. Johnston [owner of my ancestors who came from Bourbon Co., [Paris] KY and his wife's family and his have links via Pittsburg, PA] and then second she married Nathaniel Leonard at Ravenswood [my ancestors were slaves on this plantation] in Bunceton MO; had one son named William Hutchinson. Benjamin Franklin Hutchinson died in Kirkwood, MO Oct. 10th, 1876. William's son Benjamin Frankin Hutchinson married Eliza Ann Israel1! [I have a letter from Charles E. Leonard dated July 6, 1893 -- son of Margaret Hutchinson and Nathaniel Leonard who writes an extensive letter to the grandson of Mr. Lewis Hutchinson [Margaret's brother] late of Pittsburg, PA. I can not read his first name well.. but his last name is Warfield. I also have a will of William Hutchinson of Kirkwood MO; who mentions his wife Mary Alice, and son Benjamin Frankin and his wife Eliza Ann... dated April 8, 1914. Margaret Hutchinson Johnston Leonard's other brother James S. Hutchinson married Martha V. Tutt -- the Tutts also owned my ancestors who came to Callaway Co., MO from Culpepper and Farquier Co., VA. Some of my people changed their names from TUTT to MILES. Here's a quick diddy to make the KEEN tie. Mathias and Elias Keen married sisters Margaret and Hannah Thomas. The Thomas sisters had a brother Nathan who married Rebecca Cottman; their daughter Susan Thomas married Jesse Waterman, whose daughter Rebecca Waterman m. Allen Cuthbert of Germantown, and whose granddaughter Susan Thomas m. Charles H. Israell and removed to Pittsburg, PA. Their daughter Eliza Israell m. Benjamin Hutchinson; their daughter Caroline C. Israell m. Joseph Lloyd. and their daughter Sarah Israell m. William Rodman Olden. Their daughter Susannah Cottman m. Joseph Harberson and their daughter Hannah Cottman m. Thomas Nightingale. Do you follow -- the Thomas line of children married into the Israell line and also then Benjamin Hutchinson and then Lloyd and Olden. This tied the pieces up I had for a will of Catherine Wilkens Israell: Caroline C. Llloyd of Ellsville, St. Louis, Mary Israell of 322 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA, Sarah Olden of Seranton, PA; Henry C. Israell of San Francisco, CA; ELIZA HUTCHINSON LLOYD of Ellsville, St. Louis Co., MO, Catherine Wilkins Olden of Oakland California; William Hutchinson of St. Louis, MO and Charles Du Pont Breck of Seranton, PA -- all of whom were party to a transaction recorded in Poughkeepsie Co., NY. I believe the NY connection is Joseph Lloyd who married Beulah S. Emlen of NY, NY in 1830. Their son Joseph married Caroline Correy Israell daughter of Charles Hutchinson Israell and Sarah Thomas. I have collected more detailed information on the Israell, Lloyd family ties in St. Louis if you are interested. I can not vouch for all the information above; but most of it I gleaned from personal papers via special collections on the families noted above. Here's a link to Susannah Steelman and John Keen [Kyn] http://www.wildwoodweb.com/familytree/keen.html More on the Joran Kyn [Keen] families http://www.wildwoodweb.com/familytree/toc.html History of Ellsville, MO -- Capt. Benjamin F. Hutchinson mentioned http://www.ellisville.mo.us/history.html Hope this helps some one. My interest is wills, probate, land deed and bible records which may shed some light on slaves owned in the Hutchinson/Johnston family. For example, I have just learned that Thomas McClanahan father of Peggy McClanahan who married RObert Johnston -- father of the Capt. William H. Johnston m. Rachel Spears; inherited a tavern and slaves from Mr. McClanahan. So a will of Mr. McClanahan and Mr. Robert Johnston -- may prove helpful in how Mr. Robert Johnston and his sons acquired slaves. Thanks, traci wilson-kleekamp african americans in missouri http://www.missouri-slave-data.org