 He tried to get the congregationalist leader William Ames to come to the island, pointing out its advantages over New England, one being that "We are also far more secure from the hierarchical jurisdiction than New England is, for no great prelate will leave his pontifical palace to take his journey to live upon a barren rock".Although Wood occasionally used the word "slaves" for blacks, generally he called them "servants", in contrast to Barbados.He said of the black servants the company had provided him that the women were "lyving vpon my charge, for they doe little else than to looke to their children for no man willbe troubled with them."