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The Work of Our Hands was descended from Thomas Carlyle, a notable Victorian historian, biographer and social critic. John Randall, as one of the offspring of Hannah Sturgis and Allin Ellis, represented the intimate connections which joined these early pioneer families. As a "joiner" of a different sort, John Randall, through his carpenter skills, helped develop the village in ways that were just as important to the advancement of Mount Pleasant, ways which endured as the village graduated to its place in a new province and a new country.