Connecticut's Favourite Son
Captain Nathan Hale (1755 - 1776)
"I only regret," he said, "that I have
but one life to lose for my country."
By Rev. Edward Everett Hale
Nathan Hale, a martyr soldier of the American Revolution, was born in Coventry, Conn., June 6, 1755. When but little more than twenty-one years old he was hanged, by order of General William Howe, as a spy, in the city of New York, on September 22, 1776..."
Captain Nathan Hale