Kilted Soldier Print

[Highland Logan]

Actually blue was for regiments with the Royal designation, such as the 42nd RoF Royal Highland Regt (Black Watch) in 1758; & the 84th RoF Royal Highland Emigrants (1775) whom were raised from veterans of the 42nd, 77th & 78th that served in the F&I War and had settled in the colonies, and from Highlanders (some former Jacobites) who resided in North Carolina (the Cross Creek Highlanders who fought in the battle at Moore's Creek Bridge).

You are cottect... it was late, my error.

The 71st Frasers (1775) wore white facings. Silver braid for officers, white lace w/ red worm for OR's (other ranks), arranged in paired square-end loops. Plain blue bonnets were originally specified, but a portrait of Mjr McPherson (1st Bn) shows a Kilmarnock bonnet. According to Stewart of Garth (42nd RHR - 1787) the regt adopted a red hackle in about 1777.

So far as any research I have found or paid for, the 71st left very few records, and a lot is based on what others wore, or stories. Don Troiani did a famous print with a Pte. of the 71st wearing trews made from his kilt.

That's a great story about your 5th Great Grandfather

He was wounded, and sent to serve with the Royal Garrison Btn. in Bermudia. I have copys of his discharge papers, and he took a land grant here in Nova Scotia, founding my home town.

...encounter with "Bloody Ban" (Tarleton) at Camden...

Play fair or I'll talk about the Swamp Fox.. lol

Nice picture, despite the tartan screw up. As mentioned earlier, there is some debate amongst historians as to rather the 78th wore (red) Fraser or a brown tartan. I really have no opinion. However it is noted in volume 2 'Sons of the Mountain' that
"the debate over what Fraser's Highlanders' actually wore has been under discussion for some fifty years. A snippet of plaid, worn by Captain Thomas Fraser of Struy of the 78th Foot and passed down through his family, is now in possession of the David M. Stewart Museum in Montreal. It is a faded reddish brown color and has lost much of its original vibrancy through exposure to the elements and the passage of time. At least three contemporary paintings show the 78th Foot wearing a red-based sett with brown, blue and green stripes The Pinch of Snuff by William Delacour, executed around 1760, shows a company officer on campaign in North America wearing a reddish-brown sett with black or green overstripes.
The Death of Wolfe completed by Benjamin West in 1770 shows the red-haired Colonel Simon Fraser wearing a belted plaid, a sett of brickish-red background with broad green stripes and double-red overstripes. a recently-discovered portrait of Colonel William Amherst at the foot of Flagstaff Hill (Signal Hill) at St John's Newfoundland, 1762, shows a crouching Fraser's Highlander wearing a red-brown tartan with green stripes. The figure might be Captain Charles Macdonell of Glengarry, who was mortally wounded in the subsequent assault.
American-born Benjamin West was working in New York in 1757 and probably saw the 78th pass through the city on its way to winter quarters in Connecticut. West prided himself on the detail in his paintings and collected actual equipment and weapons used in the plains of Abraham battle including Wolfe's fuzee, and a grenadier's cap. When he painted a figure which resembled Robert Rogers, he gathered some of Rogers' equipment to be used in the portrait. Given West's attention to detail, one may assume that his portrayl of Simon Fraser's plaid is correct."

The problem with all of these, like I pointed out earlier is that artists tend to make things "better", adding this or that, and just making what was apear grander, and larger than life and how they think it should look.

Link to the page with this picture from the Clan Fraser website.