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 Originally Posted by cessna152towser
 from the Scottish Borders.
Tartan Ferret brings up a modern Benson of New England tartan and also Roxburgh Red. Guy Roxburgh, the current Duke of Roxburghe lives about twenty miles from here at Floors Castle but I'm not aware of the Roxburgh/Benson family connection.
http://www.floorscastle.com/scottishborders/castle.cfm
Most likely the connection is via the Roxburgh district tartan, as Roxburgh may have had a large number of Bensons residing there at some point.
T.
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