James Amos a native of Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland played a role in the early colonization of British West Florida beginning in the late 1760s. He settled in Pensacola which was the capital of the newly established British province and was one of the first European-inhabited settlements in what would later become the United States of America. Amos worked as an agent for the large British planters and plantations in the area. James Amos would also...