William Panton (c. 1740 – 26 February 1801) was the head of a group of five Scottish merchants who founded the powerful and influential trading firm of Panton, Leslie & Company in 1783 at St. Augustine, then the capital of British East Florida. They formed a partnership to trade with the Indians of Florida and the Spanish borderlands on the southern frontier of the British colonies. Panton, the son of John Panton and Barbara Wemyss, was born on the family farm at the Mains of Aberdour on the south coast of the Moray Firth in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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