"earliest account of" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to the first or oldest record or description of something. Example: "The earliest account of the city dates back to the 8th century when it was a small fishing village." In this sentence, "earliest account of" is used to describe the first written report or record of the city's existence.
An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time.
The earliest account of a denguelike disease comes from the Jin dynasty (265 420 ce) in China.
He explained that he had found the earliest account of what he called the "linguistic phenomenon" of Pig Latin, then generally considered a secret language, in a treatise written by Giovanni della Porta in Naples in 1563.
The earliest account of gardening in English, The Feate of Gardening, dating from about 1400, mentions the use of more than 100 plants, with instructions on sowing, planting, and grafting of trees and advice on cultivation of herbs such as parsley, sage, fennel, thyme, camomile, and saffron.
Peirce's earliest account of the meaning of probability, then, is a version of what is called the "long run relative frequency view" of probability.
One of the earliest account of 2BR is [17], where 2BR was part of the SVM-HF method, a SVM based algorithm for training the binary models of both levels.
The earliest accounts of Mr. Lewis sketch him as a slightly shy but self-reliant person.
Central to the book is "The Hell of Treblinka", one of the earliest accounts of a Nazi death camp.
It's no coincidence, I think, that the earliest accounts of human flight compare the view of the landscape beneath to a map.
He also gave one of the two earliest accounts of double counterpoint and offered detailed advice on the setting of words to music.
The desire to know everything on earth and in heaven is so ancient that one of the earliest accounts of this ambition is already a cautionary tale.
