Having seen a ledger of Port Purdy Mills with dates from 1858 to 1865, I became interested in some of the names in it (like Gruber, Huff, and Purdy), but it was mostly those dates that interested me. Entries in the ledger began with the usual entries found in a grist mill ledger -- concerning sales of flour, bushels of corn, etc., but about the time of 1862 and 1863 and throughout the years of the Civil War, the entries weremore erratic.    No location for Port Purdy Mills is in the ledger. The only Purdy's Mills I found was in Lindsay, Ontario in Canada, so the Civil War probably was not the cause of the interruptions in the entries. So my search for Port Purdy Mills ended with another episode of raising more questions than finding answers.   Shot down again...