Of the company a great number were Protestants, willing to take land, if their condition were bettered so, with Catholics.

Difficulties of many kinds kept them all long at the mouth of the Thames, but at last, late in November, 1633, the Ark and the Dove set sail.

Touching at the Isle of Wight, they took aboard two Jesuit priests, Father White and Father Altham, and a number of other colonists.

Baltimore reported that the expedition consisted of "two of my brothers with very near twenty other gentlemen of very good fashion, and three hundred labouring men well provided in all things." These ships, with the first Marylanders, went by the old West Indies sea route.

We find them resting at Barbados; then they swung to the north and, in February, 1634, came to Point Comfort in Virginia.