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Panton, Leslie & Company

Scottish merchants in the Bahamas and Spanish Florida

Panton, Leslie & Company was a company of Scottish merchants active in trading in the Bahamas and with the Native Americans of what is now the Southeastern United States during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The origins of Panton, Leslie & Company are in the firm Moore and Panton, in Savannah, Georgia, of which William Panton became a partner in 1774.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

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Panton, Leslie & Company headquarters
Photo: Photonegative of a sketch by Al See, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Panton, Leslie & Company was a company of Scottish merchants active in trading in the Bahamas and with the Native Americans of what is now the Southeastern United States during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The origins of Panton, Leslie & Company are in the firm Moore and Panton, in Savannah, Georgia, of which William Panton became a partner in 1774.2

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