Palmer, Robert (1724-ca. 1790)

• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

Parker, John Harvey (1883-1974)

• Powell, William S. North Carolina Lives, 941-942, port.
  

Parker, Zebulon Vance (1878-1941)

• The History of the North Carolina Dental Society with Biographies of its Founders (Raleigh, N.C.: NC Dental Society, 1939), 472.
  

Pasteur, William (fl. 1770s)

• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

Patterson, Frank T. (1856-1939)

• Prominent People of North Carolina, 126.

Patterson, F.M. Simmons (1914-1998)

• Powell, William S. North Carolina Lives, 951.
  

Patterson, Joseph Flanner (1884-1949)

• History of North Carolina (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing, 1919), 6:241 (name spelled Paterson).

Paul, Hiram Voss (1848 - ca. 1900)

• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

Pearsall, Patrick Murphy (1858-1923)

• History of North Carolina (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing, 1919), 6:275-276.

Perdue, Beverly M.

• Hammerstein, Carol. Women of the North Carolina General Assembly, 15, 25, port.
  

Perkins, Lee (c1894-1917)

• Hearn, Daniel Allen. Legal Executions in North Carolina and South Carolina: A Comprehensive Registry, 1866-1962, p. 61.

Perry, Daniel Wolfe (1896-1937)

• North Carolina: Rebuilding an Ancient Commonwealth, 4:485, port.
  

Pettey, Sarah Dudley (1869-1906)

• African American National Biography, 6: 327-328.
• Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. "Gender and Jim Crow: Sarah Dudley Pettey's Vision of the New South" North Carolina Historical Review (July 1991): 262-285.
• Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. "Uncovering Sarah Dudley Pettey's Life" NC Crossroads (February 1998): 1-8. (Available online as a PDF)
  

Pettigrew, James Johnston (1828-1863)

• American National Biography
• Dictionary of American Biography, volume 7, part 2, page 516. 
• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography
  
• Wilson, Clyde M. Carolina Cavalier: the Life and Mind of James Johnston Pettigrew. Athen, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1990.

Pigott, Emeline Jamison (1836-1919)

• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography
• Kent, Scotti. More than Petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina Women, 68-81, port.
  

Pollock, George (1772-1839)

• Woodward, Ruth L. and Wesley Frank Craven, Princetonians, 1784-1790 (Princeton, NJ:Princeton UP, 1991), 212-214.

Pollock, Raymond (1876-1951)

• History of North Carolina (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing, 1919), 6:154.
• Lefler, Hugh T. History of North Carolina, 3:18. 

Pollock, Thomas (1654 - 1722)

• Ashe, Samuel A. and Stephen B. Weeks, eds. Biographical History of North Carolina: From Colonial Times to the Present. Greensboro, N.C. : Charles L. VanNoppen, 1905-1917. 8 vols. 1:411-412. 
• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography
• Conner, R.D.W., Makers of North Carolina History, 26-37.
• Cyclopedia of Eminent and Representative Men of the Carolinas of the Nineteenth Century, 2:463-464. 
• The Governors of North Carolina (2007 ed.), 114-115.

Pool, Stephen Decatur (1819-1901)

• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography
• Allardice, Bruce S. Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register (Columbia, MO: U of Missouri Press, 2008), 309-310.
  
• Atchison, Ray M. "Our Living and Our Dead: A Post-Bellum North Carolina Magazine of Literature and History" North Carolina Historical Review (Autumn 1963): 423-433.
  

Pool, Stephen Decatur, Jr. (1847-1892)

• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

Potts, Frederick Latham (1873-1935)

• North Carolina: Rebuilding an Ancient Commonwealth, 4:209-210, port.
  

Powell, Anne Marie (b. 1924)

• Who's Who in North Carolina 1973, 133-134.

Powell, John (1791-1850)

• Ware, Charles Crossfield. North Carolina Disciples of Christ: A History of Their Rise and Progress... (St. Louis, Mo.: Christian Board Publications, 1927), p. 336.
  

Price, Jonathan (d. 1822)

• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography
• Goree, John A. "Price and Strother, Joshua Potts, and the Evolution of 'A Map of the Cape Fear River and Its Vicinity'" North Carolina Historical Review (October 1999): 391-409.
  
• Herndon, G. Melvin. "The 1806 Survey of the North Carolina Coast, Cape Hatteras to Cape Fear" North Carolina Historical Review (July 1972): 242-253.
  
• Thornton, Mary Lindsay. "The Price and Strother First Actual Survey of State of North Carolina" North Carolina Historical Review (Autumn 1964): 477-483.

Price, Joseph Charles (1854 - 1893)

• Hamlin, C.H. Ninety Bits of North Carolina Biography, 109-110. 
• Paths Toward Freedom: A Biographical History of Blacks and Indians in North Carolina, 179.
• Simmons, William J. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising. Cleveland, Ohio: George W. Rewell & Co., 1887, 754-758, port., online at http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/simmons/simmons.html. 

Price, Thomas Frederick (1860-1919)

• American National Biography
• Dictionary of American Biography, volume 8, part 1, page 217. 
• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography
• Murrett, John C. The Story of Father Price. New York: McMullen Books, Inc.,1953.
  

Primrose, Mary Anne (1826 - 1916)

• Engstrom, Mary Claire. The Book of Burwell Students: Lives of Educated Women in the Antebellum South. (Hillsborough, NC: Historic Hillsborough Commission, 2007), 179-183, portrait.

Primrose, Robert Stuart (1866-1927)

• Prominent People of North Carolina, 122-123.