A number of 1812 pension and bounty land applications for veterans of the War of 1812 are available free of charge at www.fold3.com. The information noted below was abstracted by Randi Richardson from the documents available online for George Beck. George Beck served in the War of 1812 first as an ensign and later commissioned as a lieutenant. He enlisted on November 28, 1812, from what is now Washington County but was then Salem, Harrison County, and was discharged on December 27, 1812. After his discharge, he re-enlisted on May 13, 1813 and served until May 27, 1813. He served under two captains, Henry Dewalt and his brother, John Beck, and sometimes worked as a scout and spy. He married Elizabeth Master on February 19, 1819, in Salem, Washington County. In 1851, his brother, John, was living in Texas.