Howard Clifton Pruitt was born on July 5, 1888, in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Pruitt was a farmer when he registered for the draft (World War I) in June 1917. He was subsequently drafted into the service in October 1917 and served in the… Read More

Roger Atkinson Pryor was born in Petersburg, Virginia, on July 19th, 1828. Pryor was a newspaper editor, attorney, and politician. During the Civil War, he was a brigadier general in the Confederate Army. He served in the US House of… Read More

David Pugh was a resident of Bertie County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence. In 1783 he… Read More

Francis Pugh (d. 1807) was a resident of Bertie County. In 1777 he served as a grand juror in the fall session of the … Read More

John Pugh was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

Thomas Pugh (d. 1806) was a resident of Bertie County. In 1777 he served as a justice of the peace and served on the Bertie County Court, in which role he received the depositions of several men involved in the Gourd Patch Conspiracy. He also… Read More

William Pugh (d. 1809) was a resident of Bertie County who served as a justice for the Bertie County Court… Read More

Robert Pulliam was born in Franklin County, Georgia in about 1792. A farmer and plantation owner, he was one of the judges of the Inferior Court of Franklin County before he moved to Mississippi by 1850. He died in Chickasaw County, Mississippi… Read More

James Purcell (circa 1716 - 1759) was a British colonial administrator who served as lieutenant governor of the Virgin Islands from 1750 to 1759.

Ivy Purdy (d. 1797) was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

William Pursell (d. 1778) was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

William Purviance was a militia officer, justice of the peace, and member of the safety committee in colonial and Revolutionary-era New Hanover County. In an undated petition, he joined others in asking royal governor Arthur Dobbs for aid in… Read More

Richard C. Puryear was born in Yadkin County, North Carolina, on January 21, 1848. For forty years, Puryear was an attorney in Yadkinville. He died in Salisbury (Rowan County) on January 7, 1923.

William Puryear was an African American man who resided in Alamance County. In 1870 after supposedly witnessing the the Ku Klux Klan lynch county constable Wyatt Outlaw, Puryear reportedly followed some of the perpetrators home. When Puryear… Read More

Jeremiah Pushing was one of the leading men of the Chowanoke Indian nation from at least 1733 to 1734. In that role he, along with several other leaders of the nation, sold plots of the nation's land to European colonists in present-day Chowan… Read More

Thomas Pushing was a Chowan Indian whom English colonists regarded as one of the leading men of the Chowanoke Nation. In 1733 he helped transact a land lease on behalf of this people. Any further information about this individual has not been… Read More