Person:Zeruiah Winter (1)

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Zeruiah Winter was named, it is assumed, for the character in the bible Zeruiah, daughter of Jesse of the Tribe of Judah. That Zeruiah was an older sister of King David. Zeruiah had three sons, Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, all of whom were soldiers in David's army. (Wikipedia).

While common enough in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, this given name is no longer in common usage, at least in the United States. The spelling is not intuitively obvious, and the name is commonly mispelled. The following provides a summary of the frequency of occurrence for this name on the web.

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461. Zeruiah Winter was born in 1680 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey. She died in 1751 at the age of 71 in Prince William Co., Virginia. (Note: based upon her parent's marriage date in 1688, Zeruiah was likely born abt. 1689/90)

[Source: http://www.jpkirkpatrick.com/KirkAnces/JPKirkpatrickAncestors/b6940.htm].