Has anyone ever heard of a Mr. McKin, who was a carpenter in Richmond during the 1790's? The man who built my house in Lynchburg in 1816 apparently apprenticed with him...what follows is an excerpt from a history of the Elliott Family: Peter Elliott was born November 29, 1774, in Gloucester county, Virginia, as heretofore stated. He was brought up, or as they say in Virginia, raised on a farm. When nineteen years old he went to Richmond and bound himself out to a man named Mr. McKin, a carpenter. When the Whisky Rebellion, as it is called, broke out in western Pennsylvania he was drafted to help suppress the revolt. The troops were ordered to rendezvous at Fort Pitt. The prompt measures of President Washington quelled the trouble without much difficulty. Afterward young Peter Elliott returned to Richmond and finished his trade apprenticeship. He pursued his occupation with Mr. McKin until he was twenty-four years old, when he married Miss Jane Morton, a sister-in-law of Mr. McKin, and a descendant of English ancestors. Thanks, Scott Smith Lynchburg, Virginia The Peter Elliott House, ca. 1816 www.intelos.net/~wsbsmith To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html