Marie Taylor Greenslade Papers

The Greenslade Papers are comprised of business correspondence (accounts, etc.), especially of Panton, Leslie and Co., and their successors, John Forbes and Co. The collection also includes court records pertaining to lawsuits to recover moneys due, business activities, property and slaves, etc. Other documents include ship's papers, market reports, powers-of-attorney, documents regarding land ownership, particularly in Pensacola and southern Alabama, and Pantons' estate.

The correspondence from Panton, Leslie and Co., and John Forbes and Co. forms an especially interesting part of the collection. It primarily consists of letters between their various business concerns in Pensacola, St. Augustine, Nassau (Bahamas), London; their business associates in Havana, Madrid, New York, Vera Cruz, etc.; and their branches in Mobile, New Orleans, etc. Additionally there is correspondence with the traders Daniel McGillvary, and with Spanish and American government officials, Indian (Native American tribes) chiefs, etc.

Though much of it is in the nature of routine business material, taken as a whole it does form an interesting and valuable part of the material on the history of Florida and the southern United States frontier from 1764 to 1900. As much as half of the collection is in Spanish, and the bulk of the collection has been duplicated (photocopies are included).