[1] Taul moved as a child to Kentucky with his parents in 1787, soon after the United States had gained independence.

During the War of 1812, he raised and outfitted troops, serving as a colonel of Wayne County Volunteers.

He moved in 1826 with his family to Winchester, Tennessee, on the southern border of the state, and continued the practice of law.

[1] In 1846 he moved to Mardisville, Alabama, an area that had many cotton plantations, and had once been home to the Creek people.

[3] He was the grandfather of Taul Bradford, who represented Alabama in Congress and served the Confederacy in the American Civil War.