After waiting more than a year, I finally got a chance to read the information on Charles Cocke in the Draper manuscripts. As indicated in the indexes, there were several references to Col. Cox. Some related to mine, but I also found that there were at least two other Col. Cox's who were discussed- Gabriel Cox (of PA, who helped George Rogers Clark) and Isaac Cox (who founded Cox's Station in Nelson Co, KY). To give a flavor for how things went: There were two letters from Gov. David Campbell. In the first, he said that he had met Col. Cox but did not know much about him. In the second, he said "I have seen him and have heard much about him but could not now undertake a narrative of his life." [So when would have been a better time???] There was a letter from Col. William Martin which had about a long paragraph on my Col. Cox of Powell's Valley, but which is so blurred as to be virtually unreadable. The only good thing that came out of this was that when Draper asked Martin about Cox, Draper indicated that he thought that Cox had a Station in Powell's Valley about 1791. I then found an account about a visit to Col. Cox's Station- only to find out, when I got home, that the Cox's Station mentioned in the account was the one located in Nelson County, KY which was run by Col. Isaac Cox. Has anyone ever heard of a Cox's station located in Powell's Valley along the Kentucky Road? Phil