Left:
Portrait of Sarah Ann Worthington at Age Eight
Watercolor on paper by Samuel H. Dearborn,
Academy of Mrs. Keets, city of Washington, Kentucky, September 1808,
Collection of the Ohio Historical Society, H86202.

Right:
Portrait of Mary Tiffin Worthington at Age Eleven
Watercolor on paper by Samuel H. Dearborn,
Academy of Mrs. Keets, city of Washington, Kentucky, September 1809.
Collection of the Ohio Historical Society, H84256.

The watercolor portraits of Eleanor and Thomas Worthington's daughters, Sarah Ann Worthington (1800-1877) and Mary Tiffin Worthington (1797-1836), are further artifacts documenting some of the Northwest Territory's forgotten settlers, children. Although Mary's portrait is dated from 1809, the child is on record as having been born in 1797, which was the year of, or the year preceding, her family's move to Chillicothe. The portrait was done while at the girls's boarding school in Kentucky. Both children wear a high-waisted indigo frock which is opened in back over a white chemise. This garment is not unlike the opened-back frock made for Ben Mowry (born 1808) in ca. 1810-1811 (see image below).