The Arvins and The Robertsons of Estill County, Kentucky

36 of the character references to his pension application stated that he had physical signs of having been wounded.

After his discharge in Georgia he returned to North Carolina where he married Susannah NICHOLS, 08 August 1781, in Bute, now Warren County. Their marriage bond was signed by Alexander Nicholson. In one of her letters Susannah stated that their banns were read in church but that they were married by a justice of the peace.

Susannah would have been twenty-two at the time of their marriage. She was born, 12 February 1759. In the fall of the year of their marriage (1781), they moved to Watauga in what is now Carter County, Tennessee, where John engaged in several Indian campaigns. Susannah mentions them in her letters to the Pension Department.

They lived for several years in Tennessee. Their sixth child, Solomon, was born in Tennessee in 1793, as were the rest of their children. It was after the birth of their children, after 1800, that they moved to Knox County, Kentucky.

According to a letter by John Garland when they made their move to Kentucky they located on Goose Creek in Knox County. This creek runs almost due west from Manchester to Laurel County. They probably did not change their location because many years later after John's death Susannah still lived on the border of Clay and Laurel Counties. Also according to this letter it was fifteen or sixteen miles to the Clay County Courthouse in Manchester. Susannah used a justice of the peace from Laurel County because he was closer.

John Garland was granted an American Revolutionary War Pension of $96.00 per annum, to begin 24 December 1824. It continued until his death in 1840.

After John's death, Susannah applied for a widow's pension about 1842. She was granted one for $80.00