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From: Phil Crowther <>
Subject: Cox's Station
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:19:20 -0600


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

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