This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JaB.2ACE/3519.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The younger John would have been about 24 years old when the War of 1812 began. Have you looked into this? Ancestry lists two different PA regiments that had a John Duncan in them. Interestingly, both regiments had two men with that same name. It is possible that this could be father and son serving--or not. The regiments are: 1. Cobean's Battalion, Pennsylvania Volunteers 2. 2nd Regiment, (Ritscher's) Pennsylvania Militia I don't know where these regiments originated. If anyone has a Virgil White 1812 pension index (book), you could ask them to check and see if either John was pensioned. A pension file would tell you a lot. Even if there is no pension file, if either of them lived beyond 1850, they could have applied for bounty land under the act passed in 1850, and would have a bounty land file at NARA.