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Sherley won the case. By 1641 all parties in the Plymouth affair wanted their freedom. The remaining joint stock, consisting of housing, boats, implements and commodities, valued at £1400 was shared by the London Partners. The Plymouth leaders promised the Partners £1200 at £400 down and £200 per year to settle the debt. In 1645 John received houses and lands in Plymouth from Bradford, Prence, Standish and Winslow, recorded in the Plymouth Colony Deeds. John Beauchamp wrote to them in 1649, conducting business in
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Beauchamp family became well established in Reigate. John's wife Alice's father had died, and by 1651 Alice's widowed mother Alice Cole Freeman was living in Reigate with them. Alice herself died in 1650 aged 50, leaving John widowed after a long marriage of 36 years. John was recorded as a
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