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Panton, Leslie and Company

1783 · 18th century

Panton, Leslie and Company was a trading firm founded by Scottish Loyalist merchants, among them William Panton and John Leslie, that dominated the deerskin trade with the Creek, Seminole and other peoples of the south-east after 1783. Spain, unable to supply the trade itself, granted the firm a privileged position in Florida, and it extended large credit to the Native towns. Its debts were later settled by land cessions.

Panton, Leslie and Company
Image: Photonegative of a sketch by Al See · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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State of Muskogee

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