 In 1634, Woodhouse took a 99-year lease of 6 shares of land () in Hamilton tribe of Bermuda from his nephew, Sir William Killigrew.The rent was nominal - 100 oranges, 100 lemons and 100 potatoes, payable at the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - but he did not keep up the payments.In 1637, Killigrew reclaimed the land.