[6] Duarte Barreto do Couto, brother of his first wife, was married to Antónia Sodré, making them double in-laws.
[6] Responding to her invitation, Vasco Gil Sodré came to Graciosa, after a stopping at several north African settlements, arriving at a time in which Portugal was at war with the Crown of Castile, owing to the pretensions Joanna la Beltraneja,[6] between 1475 and 1479.
Gil Sodré was accompanied by Beatriz Gonçalves da Silva, and a group of servants, arriving in Graciosa after staying in Terceira.
[8] The family erected a house in Carapacho, a place near to their lands in the southwest of the island, in what is today Praia.
Despite the efforts of the Sodré family, in 1485 Pedro Correia da Cunha was confirmed as Donatary Captain for the entire island, because the "land was too small for two divisions", effectively impeding Vasco Gil Sodré and his descendants from obtaining the captaincy they claimed.