Panton, Leslie & Company was a company of Scottish merchants active in trading in the Bahamas and with the Indians of what is now the Southeastern United States during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Panton, Leslie & Company also operated as merchants in the Bahamas, organizing shipping of cotton and other local products, and acting as agents for merchants in Britain. After the deaths of William Panton and John Leslie, the company was reorganized in 1804 as John Forbes & Company.