Trading in Spanish Florida William Panton

panton, leslie & company headquarters in pensacola

in april 1785, panton , john forbes arrived in spanish pensacola hastily loaded cargo of goods nassau. established new house headquarters in settlement volume of trade exceeded of st. augustine branch. according spanish census of 1786, panton, leslie , company owned 250 slaves , nineteen separate land grants, of slaves working on plantations , ranches. in february 1789, panton gained choctaw , chickasaw trade @ mobile failure of mather , strother, competitor firm based in new orleans.

by 1795 company monopolized trade native american tribes in southeast, presence reaching northward pensacola fort san fernando (formerly known chickasaw bluffs) on site of present-day memphis, , westward far new orleans, posts @ mobile , several locations in florida, bahamas, , around caribbean.