[Just mythoughts]

There may have been a ‘port’ in NC, but none of my research shows up as being a port of entry... I can find Charlestown, SC as being a major port of entry in the early days..

Salisberry, Rowan, North Carolina is the claimed place in 1765 that this woman was born.

[Pelham]

Salisbury is inland, backcountry, and it was on The Great Wagon Road that extended from Pennsylvania to Georgia. The Great Wagon Road was the main settlement route for the backcountry.

German Palantines and Scots Irish were the two dominant cultures settling the backcountry.

There’s a good chance that your German NC ancestors traveled to Salisbury after first landing at the port of Philadelphia.