Mrs. S. Downer gave birth to a daughter, afterwards named Lucy, the first white child born [in Clinton].

The evidence

• “S. Downer, in the year 1838, gave birth to a daughter, afterwards named Lucy, who was the first white child born here. Mrs.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 131 / book p. 640

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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