Old-Time New England correspondent J. Marcus Mitchell wrote regarding this conflict, "The black members were not being given an equal role in church activities.

"[5][9] Paul met on August 8, 1805 with twenty other black congregational members in Faneuil Hall to discuss how to organize the new of the body church.

Paul oversaw the church become a charter member of the Boston Baptist Association, and baptized over a hundred people in his time as pastor.

The lack of increase in attendants to the First African Baptist Church is argued to be due to Thomas Paul's abolitionist views at the time.

[13] In 1815, Paul travelled with Prince Saunders to England on a delegation to educate young children from the Massachusetts Baptist Society, meeting William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson.

[6] He forged relationships with the Haitian President, Jean-Pierre Boyer and his Secretary General, Joseph Balthazar Inginac.

[15] Haitian President Jean-Pierre Boyer asked Paul encourage the emigration of black Americans to Haiti.

[13] After attending one of his sermons, Boston resident William Bentley wrote "[Thomas Paul] impressed the audience with a regard to his sincerity and many with a sense of his talents.

[20]He also received various other mentions, such as by the dean of America's black historians Carter Woodson, who wrote "He frequently made preaching excursions into different parts of the country where his 'color' excited considerable curiosity, and being a person of very pleasing and fervid address, he attracted crowds to hear him.

"[21] Paul was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, the eldest of six brothers in what was to become a prominent family of early Black Americans.

By his sister Rhoda, he was the brother-in-law of noted black American Revolutionary War soldier, Jude Hall.