The Arvins and The Robertsons of Estill County, Kentucky

35 JOHN GARLAND and SUSANNAH NICHOLS ========================================= ========================================= (The following information was taken from letters written to the Pension Department

by John and Susannah Garland concerning their Revolutionary War Pensions.) ========================================= John GARLAND was born about 1736/48, in Virginia or England. He died in Clay County, Kentucky, 17 September 1840, living, (according to the census) to be one hundred and four years of age.

John volunteered to serve his Country in the American Revolutionary War. He was mustered into service as a private, 20 April 1776, in Halifax County, North Carolina. He served in the North Carolina Continential Line, in Capt.

Pink Eaton's Company of the 3rd Regiment, commanded by Col. Sumter of the Brigade commanded

by General Nash. Upon the completion of his term he was discharged, 10 November 1778, at Frederichborough in the state of Connecticut. John enlisted again for three more years in the Company commanded by Capt. John Colman, Regiment of Col. Patton. When he made application for pension he could not recall the brigade. He was already an old man in his eighties by that time. His discharges are not among his pension papers because he sent them to Col. Robertson when he first made his application and the file was lost.

In all he spent five and one-half years in the army and engaged in many battles. He was wounded in the head in the battle of Brandywine and was severely wounded in the thigh at another time. He was also wounded in the battle of Germantown in Philadelphia. He fought in the battle of Monmouth Courthouse and several others. One