This interview is from a microfilm copy found in the "Draper Manuscript Collection".
The original manuscript is owned and housed by The State Historical Society of
Wisconsin. The interview was taken by Lyman C. Draper between 6 Jul and 30 Oct 
1863 and can be found in Series S, Volume 17, pp 281-2. The Draper Collection is
contained on 116 rolls of microfilm and is a  collection of  historical materials, documents
 and personal interviews covering American History from 1740-1891 by  Lyman C. Draper
(1815-1891).

INTERVIEW OF RACHEL RENO by LYMAN C. DRAPER

"And now RACHEL RENO-now over 86 years old - an African woman, born in
BLUE JACKET'S TOWN near Bellefontaine, her mother having been captured in
Kentucky by the Shawanoes, - having early went to live with the Col. Alex McKEE
family a little below Sandwich, Canada  :  Col. McKEE often spent some of his 
winters on the river Thames,  he had many pet animals including deer; a pet deer
hooked and gored him in the leg and he died of Lockjaw. He left one or two sons
and Mrs. McKEE, part Indian, Col. McKEE having a Shawanoe wife.
   SIMON GIRTTY was good to prisoners - often saved them - having got cut
and hacked over the head in forcibly rescuing them.
  BLUE JACKET lived and died near Br...?.... - was a good Indian, had a son
named GEORGE BLUE JACKET .
  RACHEL RENO said of her own accord that SIMON KENTON'S Indian name
was Cut-Ta-Ho-Tha  which meant to be "blackened" or "condemned man"  prepared
for burning at the stake.

Notes: Bellefontaine is located in Logan County, OH, Shawanoes are often referred
to as Shawnees, Col. Alex McKEE was a British Loyalist and Indian Agent, Simon
GRITTY and Simon KENTON were Frontiersmen and Pioneers who helped in the
settlement of Kentucky and what later became the Northwest Territory. George
BLUE JACKET is reputed to have attended a school run by Indian Agent Col.
Johnston, near Piqua, OH in Miami County.
     IF, Rachel was over 86 years of age in 1863, she would have been born ca 1777.
We believe her mother was a slave named Candis and was owned by the family of
Rene LaForce, a French Huguenot, who migrated from Goochland County, VA into
Kentucky. There is an account of LaForce's two daughters and a slave girl being
captured in a raid of Shawanoes, supposedly led by a Capt. Alex McKEE, with the
daughters and the slave girl going to Canada with McKEE.