Panton, Leslie & Company collection, 1739-1847
Correspondence, business papers, court records and related documents. This collection contains the editorial and research files of Dr. William S. Coker, Editor, the Papers of Panton, Leslie and Company. It includes materials related to this British firm and its successors, John Leslie and Company, and John Forbes and Company, 1739-1847. The company, under a monopoly granted by the Spanish government, engaged in an extensive Indian trade throughout the Old Southwest, and continued under British and American governance. The papers touch virtually every aspect of frontier life in Spanish and British Florida and adjacent states. The collection includes exhaustive documentation from sources other than the company records, historical publications, and writings, 1900-1987, about the company
Archival Material, English, 1739