# Find the first doc with property

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-the-first-doc-with-property/51970
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 6, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-the-first-doc-with-property/51970 "2016-06-06T15:14:10Z")
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### Author: ![liorg2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed8c4c/32.png) [@liorg2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/liorg2)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-the-first-doc-with-property/51970/1 "2016-06-06T15:14:10Z")

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im trying to get the first document that has a specific property.  
for example i have 50 docs with property "a":"1", with different dates.  
also 100 docs with "a":"2"  
is there a way to query the first doc of each "a" value,and first doc of "b" value by date?

thanks!

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-the-first-doc-with-property/51970/2 "2017-07-05T22:45:38Z")

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