It has taken over twenty-five years of intermittent effort to gather this material for the Purmort Genealogy. No pretense is made to literary excellence or complete historical accuracy, but many facts are presented regarding the family that have greatly interested the Author and may likewise interest some of his Uncles and Aunts and numerous Cousins. If the living members of the family should not appreciate the effort to place in book form our history, the Author is glad to know the dead cannot complain and he bespeaks the charity of the generations still unborn.