[SMARTY]

An interesting tid bit. Years ago I read an author who said Hale could not have been a worse choice for espionage because he had a wide and deserved reputation as the handsomest man in all the colonies. The idea should have been to engage a person in espionage who was and could remain, ordinary and insignificant

His appearance was striking and unmistakable making his presence noticed and remarked upon everywhere he went. .

Just a little remembrance of reading long ago.

[Pharmboy]

Your remembrance is correct, kind sir. Hale was a teacher in CT, and was a well-known Patriot. When he went to Long Island to spy, he was dressed as laborer or farmer, and it was Robert Rogers of Rogers Rangers fame (French and Indian War) who spotted the buckled shoes he was wearing and figured he might have been a spy. Rangers was a Loyalist, obviously...also, plaque on 65th and Third Ave. in NYC near to where he was likely hung.