Paul Thomas

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Thomas Paul

Thomas Paul (1773–1831) was a Baptist minister in Boston, Massachusetts, affiliated with the African Meeting House and the Education Society for the People of Colour. His contributions are more palpable today through his work as an abolitionist, his leadership in the black community, and his support for Haiti. He helped establish a long line of black leaders, many of whom came from his own family. Paul lived in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood. His children included activist Susan Paul.

Biographical Data

He was born in Exeter, New Hampshire; the eldest of six brothers, three including Nathaniel Paul, Benjamin Paul became Baptist preachers. His sister Nancy married James Monroe Whitfield. Nathaniel was a minister at Albany, NY, and founder of the Providence's United African Society in the 1820s. Benjamin was minister of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York. In 1805 he married Catherine Waterhouse and had three children, Ann Catherine, Susan, and Thomas, Jr. Shortly they moved to Boston.