James Seagrove was an ambassador for the United States to the Creek Nation and merchant who lived in southern Georgia.
[1] He first appears helping the states of Georgia and South Carolina to procure supplies from Cuba during the American Revolutionary War.
During the 1780s, acting occasionally with the British firm of Panton, Leslie & Company, Seagrove developed a network of mercantile and diplomatic contacts with the Spanish and the Indians along the Georgia borders, and both the state and the federal government utilized his talents in a series of missions to the southern tribes.
[2] He also formed a charter with his brother Robert Seagrove, and James Armstrong and Noble Hardee for the town of Coleraine also on the St. Marys River, where he operated a mercantile store.
[6] Dissatisfied with an appointment which had produced "not one shilling," Seagrove wrote to President Washington on 16 April 1790[7] requesting a more lucrative assignment and in March 1792 he was made inspector of the port.