 However, he accepted this situation and did not look for a way to get the women working in the fields.He cared for the welfare of the children of his black servants, wanting to ensure that when they were put out to service they had masters who would look after their education.In his 1653 will, Wood fulfilled a promise he had made more than twenty years earlier, 
and made a provision for a 27-year-old black man, described as "Roger the son of Louis and Maria."