He has been described as being five feet five inches high and weighing two hundred pounds.

He was a respected member of the Baptist church, when whites and blacks worshipped together.

He was held in high esteem by the settlers and his young master, Wallace Estill, gave him his freedom and clothed and fed him as long as he lived thereafter--till about 1835.
"A year or two after the close of the Revolutionary war, a Mr.
Woods was living near Crab Orchard, Kentucky, with his wife, one daughter (said to be ten years old), and a lame Negro man.

Early one morning, her husband being away, Mrs.Woods when a short distance from the house, discovered seven or eight Indians in ambush.

She ran back into the house, so closely pursued that before she could fasten the door one of the savages forced his way in.