Career
According to an English visitor, West. M., in 1699, he was about 60 years old at that time, making his birth year about 1639. Oldman had received a commission to protect Englishmen from the governor of Jamaica around 1655, and according to West. M. he could speak a little English and was very courteous to Englishmen. His court was located near Cabo Gracias a Dios near the Nicaragua-Honduras border, and consisted only of a few houses, not much different from those of his subjects.
He was probably the last person to hold the title of king who was of indigenous ancestry, as later rulers would be Miskitos Zambos, the descendants of African slaves who survived a shipwreck in the region in the mid-seventeenth century.
