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 Ralph again took with him his brothers, Henry and Charles. Besides the Mortons and the crew of the vessel, there were forty-four men, twelve women, and eighteen children. It was not until the third voyage that any women had ventured to go to the Jamestown colony, but Ralph had sufficient confidence to take along the families of twelve of his men whose wives were willing to go. Among the men were two carpenters, one mason, one shoemaker, and one blacksmith.

The Flora sailed from the mouth of the Thames on the twentieth of January, 1610, and arrived at her destination on the Potomac the eighteenth of March. Ralph stopped at the village of the Nacotchtanks and purchased of them a piece of ground bounded by the Potomac and the Eastern Branch, of a day's journey in compass. He paid for the land in red blankets, which the Indians much fancied, and hoes, of which he showed them the use, and gave them a grindstone on which to sharpen them.