Whakamahia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tohua ia hei kaitiaki i te tau 21 i te 28 o Aperira 1800. I mahi ano tana tuakana a Robert Livingston i te US Navy hei tohunga taatai i runga i te kaipuke kaipuke i te Pakanga o 1812. Ko tana tuakana, ko Herman, he kaitiaki i runga i te USS Wasp me te USS Peacock. I mahi a Jonathon Thorn i te Navy i te wā o te
Ko te Pakanga o Tripolitan, a ka hiahia ki te whakauru ki te haerenga morearea ki te whakangaro i te kaipuke "Philadelphia" i hopukina, i whakaterehia i raro i nga pupuhi o te tauranga Tripoli. I te 16 o Hui-tanguru 1804, i arahina e Lieutenant Stephen Decatur tetahi roopu o enei kaitautoko i roto i te ketch "Intrepid" ki Tripoli ka tahuna te kaipuke Amerika kia kore ai e taea te whakamahi e te hoariri.