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in reply to a message by Merrie
Apparently, your Zerirah Hubbard wasn't the only woman to have borne that first name, although darned if I can figure out its derivation.
I'd take a guess that it may have been a misheard biblical name which got passed on to a child, as I also found another early American Zerirah married to a Resolved (which is a Puritan name).
Some possibilities (although feminine-sounding, these are all actually the names of males from the bible):
Seraiah - "prince of the Lord"
Zerah - "east, brightness"
Zerahiah - "the lord is rising; brightness of the lord"
-- Nanaea
I'd take a guess that it may have been a misheard biblical name which got passed on to a child, as I also found another early American Zerirah married to a Resolved (which is a Puritan name).
Some possibilities (although feminine-sounding, these are all actually the names of males from the bible):
Seraiah - "prince of the Lord"
Zerah - "east, brightness"
Zerahiah - "the lord is rising; brightness of the lord"
-- Nanaea
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