Guns, Dogs and Blades QnA

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

They came from Ireland and the first records I have seen are from around 1720 near Lancaster PA and north east Maryland. From there they went to Virginia then a group split and went down to North Carolina after the war.