These two girls both want to be the first. Being a baby in Essex.

The first child born in Essex was born on this day in 1783, and, in fact, there were two of them. Frances Hall and Clarissa Stevens were both born on this day, and they were born so close together that nobody's sure who was the first child born in Essex.

Frances Hall tends to get more credit as Essex's first born because her birth was recorded in the town clerk's office and Clarissa Stevens' birth was not.

It would be almost another five years before the first deaths would occur in Essex and 12 years before the first marriage would be held in town.

The Vermont Book Of Days photo.

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