The administration of the entail would be marked by the distance management of the property, since the first administrators, the heirs and their families kept residence in Braga, in the north of Portugal. Thus, on the death of the institutor, the administration of Francisca and Damião dos Lanções de Andrade, her husband, would be carried out by means of proxies, greatly weakening any direct action on the entailed property. In fact, during this period, the couple denounced to the authorities the abuses committed over their properties, stating that, as they were absent, the houses were taken by the officers of the fleets that docked in downtown Salvador (ANTT, Gavetas, Gav. 20, mç. 16, nº 18, fls. 1-8, fls. 124-131v). Already in Portugal, Francisca and Damião established a new morgadio with a chapel with masses recited in the church of the Mosteiro of Nossa Senhora da Conceição of Braga, besides houses in Brazil “that earn 330.000 réis each year” (ANTT, Gavetas, Gav. 20, mç. 16, nº 18, fls. 1-8, fl. 34v) inherited by Francisca’s mother, and which were attached to the assets formerly entailed by her parents.

With no direct descendants, the couple’s will appointed Teotónio Soares de Brito as the future administrator of the morgadio. He was Damião’s direct nephew, but also his brother-in-law, as he was married to Madalena Pereira do Lago, the youngest daughter of the founders. In 1690, even before he was appointed administrator, the only descendant of the couple died, and the management of the estate was transferred to his lineage – the eldest of four brothers, Manuel José Soares de Brito was the 3rd administrator of the property distributed between Brazil and Portugal until the date of his death, although with no guaranteed descendants.

The administration of Santa Bárbara finally fell to his brother, José Inocêncio Soares de Brito. In 1794, this administrator appears in a petition sent to the Provedoria das Capelas e Resíduos da Baía, complaining that his “public chapel with sacristy and pulpit, main door and crossbeam, with three altars where many masses are daily celebrated in which most of the inhabitants of Praia who confess there attend”, is invaded by smoke caused by the repair of ships, as well as excrement thrown in front of the chapel, or even corpses abandoned at the door of the temple (ANTT, Gavetas, Gav. 20, mç. 16, nº 18, fls. 1-8, fl. 172v-174). With no children, and being the last male descendant of the institutor’s blood, at his death, in 1804, the entail was considered vacant – only in 1871, after a decision of the Supreme Court of Justice, was the entail considered extinct and abolished, given as vacant to the State, as National Property (MADRUGA, 1928, p. 285).