Several years ago there was a story on the old "Gathering of the Clans" web site about a tartan & kilt unearthed in a grave in Texas from the 1850s. Sadly, the original article is gone, but this snippet is on the Clan Laing's web site:

This is the Laing tartan as recovered from the grave of George Henry Laing who died in 1853 in East Texas. George had moved to Texas from Liberty County adjacent to the Gaelic speaking community of Darien in Georgia. James, his grandfather, had moved to The North Carolina Scottish Colony of the Cape Fear River from Scotland some time between 1745 and 1765 bringing the sett with him. The relatively dry climate and local soil conditions are accredited with the remarkable preservation of sufficient portions of his great kilt to allow the reconstruction of the sett. The Laing Tartan has been adopted as the official Clan Laing Society tartan and is registered with the Scottish Tartans World Register as STWR No. 2801
-- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.an...ety/Index.html

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