Oldman (died 1687), King of the Mosquito Nation from c. 1650 until his death in 1687, was the son of a Miskito leader. This earlier king went to England, according to a memorial left in Jamaica by one of his descendants, during the reign of
Charles I Charles I may refer to:
Kings and emperors
* Charlemagne (742–814), numbered Charles I in the lists of Holy Roman Emperors and French kings
* Charles I of Anjou (1226–1285), also king of Albania, Jerusalem, Naples and Sicily
* Charles I of ...
(1625–1649) but during the time when the
Providence Island Company
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was operating in the region (c. 1631–1641). He was followed by another visitor, alleged to be a "prince" of the same group.
According to the testimony of his son
Jeremy I, as recorded in 1699 by an English witness called W. M., Oldman was taken to
England
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and received in audience by "his brother king",
Charles II "soon after the conquest of Jamaica" (1655). He was given a lace hat as a sort of crown and a written commission "to kindly use and relieve such straggling Englishmen as should chance to come that way".
[M. W. "The Mosqueto Indian and his Golden River", in ]Awnsham Churchill
Awnsham Churchill (1658–1728), of the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London and Henbury, Dorset, was an English bookseller and radical Whigs (British political party), Whig politician who sat in the English House of Commons, English and British H ...
, ''A Collection of Voyages and Travels'' (London, 1732), vol. 6, p.288.
He was succeeded in 1687 by his son,
Jeremy I.
References
1687 deaths
Miskito people
Year of birth unknown
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