Guns, Dogs and Blades QnA

doogievlg said
You seem much more knowledgeable on muskets than me. Are you at all familiar with Gillespie rifles? Made in North Carolina in the early 1800’s. My ancestors came to the colonies in the early 1700’s and ended up with their own company after the war.

Interesting

Did they come into the Colonies directly in the Carolinas or from elsewhere?

Most of the "family trees" of smiths I've read on have been Germans through the Penn Colony then moving west and south as apprentices were spun off