In the History of Conway, Caesar Wood is referred to as "Black Caesar," "'Saxton [sexton] and Grave Diger', who also, as the ancient memories tell us, did every sort of a thing." History of Conway (Massachusetts), 1767-1917, Rev. Charles Stanley Pease, Ed., 1917, pp. 36, 37, 112. Wood succeeded Calab Sharp (Sharp Calab) in the construction and operation of sawmills and gristmills in Conway. Formerly ensalved and of African American and Indigenous heritage, Sharp constructed and operated the town's first sawmill in 1767 in partnership with Ebenezer Barnard, as well as a gristmill. In Sharp's account book is an entry for "woork on the mill" in 1779 that included two shillings, 8 pence for a day's work by "Ceser Wood". (Account book of Calab Sharp, Jones Library Special Collections, Amherst, MA.)
Caesar married Bette Barne of Conway in June of 1776. They lost a child in 1777 at the age of six months, another was stillborn in 1778, a child lived only a few days in 1782, and Caesar, Jr. died in 1790 at the age of nine years. Sally was born on December 30,1785, but nothing else is known about her. Conway vital records note that Betty, "an Indian woman" died on October 12, 1800. The federal census for Conway for that year lists Caesar with three in the "All Other Free Persons" column.