captured by Barbary corsairs in 1809 and enslaved before being released.

As Nicholas Oliver Lawson, he took citizenship in the United States in 1811. At the start of the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain he narrowly escaped capture by the British near Gibraltar. He served as US officer in the war and later settled in Canada where he worked as a merchant. He was declared bankrupt in 1816.

By 1818, he had joined the Chilean Navy

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