Ruttel reports conception in a girl of nine, and as far north as St.

Petersburg a girl has become a mother before nine years.

The Journal de Scavans, 1684, contains the report of the case of a boy, who survived, being born to a mother of nine years.
Beck has reported an instance of delivery in a girl a little over ten years of age.

There are instances of fecundity at nine years recorded by Ephemerides, Wolffius, Savonarola, and others.

Gleaves reports from Wytheville, Va., the history of what he calls the case of the youngest mother in Virginia--Annie H .-- who was born in Bland County, July 15, 1885, and, on September 10, 1895, was delivered of a well-formed child weighing 5 pounds.