Includes business records, legal documents, original documents, maps, as well as some copies relating to the Panton Leslie Co., and its subsidiary company John Forbes and Co., documenting a rare look into Florida's colonial past and the events that shaped its history. Includes personal letters between the partners in both companies, and major figures of the time including Florida territorial governors, U.S. officials, Indian chiefs, British officials, French officials, and family members. There also exists account sheets between Indians, traders, and the companies, power of attorney documents, wills, land acquisition documents, and legal case documents covering Florida, and what is now the Southeastern United States. The company was involved in trading goods with the native inhabitants of the southeastern U.S.,during Florida's British colonial period, and later through the second Spanish period, and eventually through acquisition by the U.S. The company's interests were so far reaching, and the company held such a huge monopoly over the Indian trade that its partners became major actors in the direction of Florida's future, as evidenced in many documents in this collection. The collection includes 435 documents, most accompanied by typed transcripts in boxes 11 to 14. This collection gives a The papers were originally collected by John Innerairty' s descendant Marie Taylor Greenslade, donated to the Florida Historical Society, and are now payment located there. Collection also contains records relating to the Apalachicola Land Co. Persons represented include William Panton, John Leslie, William Leslie, John Forbes, John Innerarity, James Innerarity, Daniel McGuillveray, Alexander McGuillveray, Zespedes Carondolet, Juan Morales, Benjamin Hawkins, James Seagrove
