John Ross Price was born on June 16, 1892, in Rockingham County, North Carolina. Price was a farmer in Wentworth, North Carolina, when he registered for the draft (World War I) in June 1917. He was inducted into the service in September of that… Read More
Overton Westfeldt Price was born in Liverpool, England, on January 27, 1873. Price was among the first students of the Biltmore Forest School and studied under Carl A. Schenck. He served as assistant forester during the administrations of… Read More
Robert McCollum Price was born on September 23, 1898 in Wentworth, North Carolina. Price attended a Plattsburgh training camp in the summer of 1918. That September, he was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the army, teaching military instruction… Read More
Robert Reed Price was born in Tennessee on December 20, 1859 (or December 27, 1859). Price moved to North Wilkesboro (Wilkes County), North Carolina, with his family sometime before 1910, where he worked as a salesman at a grocery store. He moved… Read More
George Moore Pritchard was born near Mars Hill (Madison County), North Carolina on January 4, 1886. Pritchard was a resident of Asheville (Buncombe County) and Marshall (Madison County). An attorney by training, he served as a state legislator (… Read More
James Pritchard (d. 1786) was a free person of color who resided in 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… Read More
Jeter Conley Pritchard was born on July 12, 1857, in Jonesboro, Tennessee. Pritchard was a newspaperman-turned-lawyer who served in the North Carolina General Assembly for three terms before ascending to the United States Senate in 1895 to fill… Read More
In January 1914, Abbie Privett was described as an "old" woman whose home was somewhere between Wendell and Raleigh. No further information could be found.
In the 1700s, the Privy Council—a group of advisers consisting of bishops, ministers of the state, and senior members of the royal household—provided counsel to the king and handled judicial matters relating to the king and his property. The… Read More
George Robert Proctor was born on May 24, 1896, in Newport, Tennessee. Proctor was employed in the Lancaster Cotton Mill in Lancaster, South Carolina, when he registered for the draft (World War I) in June 1917. He was subsequently inducted into… Read More
Harriett Proctor (née Hoover) was born on September 14, 1862, in McDowell County, North Carolina. She married Rufus Proctor on October 27, 1881. She worked as a laundress in Marion, North Carolina. Harriett died in Marion (McDowell County) on… Read More
Albert Hooker Proffitt was born in Yancey County, North Carolina on December 1, 1857. Proffitt was a Yancey County farmer who served as a commissioner in the appraisal of property condemned for the creation of Mount Mitchell State Park. He died… Read More
Seward Prosser was born on March 1, 1871, in Buffalo, New York. Prosser was a prominent banker who held the following positions: vice-president of the Astor Trust Company (1907-1912), president of the Liberty National Bank (1912-1914), and… Read More
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
Elinor Fruit was born in Pennsylvania in about 1748. A resident of Guilford County, North Carolina, she was the sister of Regulator John Fruit and the wife of Regulator… Read More
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… 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.
John Pugh was a Quaker born in about 1738 in Pennsylvania. A prominent Regulator leader, in 1769 Pugh was one of several Orange County residents to sign Regulators' Advertisement No. 9 which called upon Governor Tryon and the North Carolina… Read More
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.
Thomas Richard Purnell was born in Wilmington, North Carolina on August 10, 1846. Purnell was an attorney who served as state librarian (1873-1876), legislator (1876-1877 & 1883-1884), and judge for the U.S. District Court in the Eastern… Read More
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