Elizabeth Pugh was born in Pennsylvania in about 1709 and later became a resident of Guilford County, North Carolina. Following the Battle of Alamance Pugh made a deposition in support of her son John Pugh, a prominent Regulator. In her deposition, she gave John Pugh an alibi for the Hillsborough Riot that happened in September 1770, hoping to help her son receive a pardon. She later resided in Randolph County, North Carolina, where she died on 2 November 1794.