Can anyone tell me where in North Carolina Daniel and Thomas Carlin kept a store c. 1780?Was it in Charlotte or Mecklenburg County? I'd be interested in any reference to these Carlins in North Carolina records. Hugh Rogan and his sister's husband Daniel Carlin (Carlen) sailed from Londonderry to Philadelphia in 1775. According to a letter from Joseph Brown to Lyman Draper in 1845, they had decided to "bring a few goods to America" to sell (as peddlers?) and "by that means would see all the country and if they did like the country they would procure a place and then return to Ireland" to bring their families over. According to the same source, Rogan moved south and finally settled in The Hornet's Nest in (Charlotte/Mecklenburg County?) North Carolina, where he worked as a weaver for three years. Daniel Carlin also came to North Carolina, but to a different settlement (?), by 1779. According to an anonymous statement by a Rogan descendant c. 1885, Daniel Carlin conducted a store at The Hornet's Nest in partnership with his brother Thomas Carlin, the father of Governor Thomas Carlin of Illinois. Hugh Rogan may have been a partner, too. If this is correct, Thomas Carlin had emigrated earlier. Thomas Carlin (1743-1804) is said to have married Elizabeth Evans at Halifax, Virginia in 1768. This may not be correct as all of Thomas Carlin's children: Thomas, Unity, James, Mary, Hugh, and Hannah were born in 1788-1796. The future governor Thomas Carlin (1789-1852) was born in Shelbyville KY and the family moved c. 1803 to Madison County, Missouri, where Thomas, Sr. died. William Hall, another contemporary, wrote that Rogan left his home in Sumner County, TN and stayed with Daniel Carlin at his NC home in 1784-85. Carlin convinced him not to return to Ireland for his wife and his child, as, he said, she had remarried, believing him dead. It took him until 1796 to learn that she was waiting for him and then to bring her and their son to Tennessee. All the best, Richard MacMaster