{"id":658,"date":"2022-01-12T15:45:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/?p=658"},"modified":"2022-05-14T23:04:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T23:04:33","slug":"seth-is-coming-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"Seth is coming home!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, 11 January 2022, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandhistsoc.com\/\">Portland Historical Society<\/a> and I joined forces and bought the portrait of <a href=\"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/?page_id=13\">Seth Overton<\/a> and two more believed to be a son and grandson!\u00a0 Gratitude to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sal.evangelista.3\">Sam Evans<\/a> for alerting us that he has purchased them and for holding them for us to buy into the historical society!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_656\" style=\"width: 1908px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Seth-Portait-by-Ben.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-656\" class=\"size-full wp-image-656\" src=\"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Seth-Portait-by-Ben.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1898\" height=\"2148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Seth-Portait-by-Ben.jpg 1898w, https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Seth-Portait-by-Ben-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Seth-Portait-by-Ben-905x1024.jpg 905w, https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Seth-Portait-by-Ben-768x869.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Seth-Portait-by-Ben-1357x1536.jpg 1357w, https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Seth-Portait-by-Ben-1810x2048.jpg 1810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1898px) 100vw, 1898px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1830s portrait of Seth Overton, bought into the Portland Historical Society on 11 January 2022.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_668\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220508_104024-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-668\" class=\"size-full wp-image-668\" src=\"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220508_104024-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220508_104024-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220508_104024-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220508_104024-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220508_104024-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220508_104024-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220508_104024-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220508_104024-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author bringing Seth to the grave of his 5x great granddaughter Gail for a reunion before the portrait is installed in its forever home. &#8211; 8 May 2022<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, 11 January 2022, the Portland Historical Society and I joined forces and bought the portrait of Seth Overton and two more believed to be a son and grandson!\u00a0 Gratitude to Sam Evans for alerting us that he has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/?p=658\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3601,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}