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Nathan
HALE
Born
6 June 1755
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Coventry, Crown Colony of Connecticut
Died
22 September 1776
,
Manhattan, Crown Colony of New York
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Born: 6 June 1755 in Coventry, Crown Colony of Connecticut
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Nathan had an active role in U.S. Revolutionary War.
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Nathan HALE died 22 September 1776 in Manhattan, Crown Colony of New York .
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Birth — 17556 June 1755
Coventry, Crown Colony of Connecticut
Nathan Hale School
After teaching at the schoolhouse in East Haddam, Nathan Hale went on to become the schoolmaster at the Union School in New London, teaching there from 1774 until the Revolutionary War began in 1775. Built in 1773, the gambrel-roofed school building was originally located on State Street, was moved to Union and Golden streets in 1830 to serve as a private home and was purchased in 1890 by the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution... historicbuildingsctcom
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Death — 177622 September 1776
Manhattan, Crown Colony of New York
He died at the age of 21.
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The name Connecticut originates from the Algonquian word 'Quinnehtukqut' (beside the long tidal river). (statesymbolsusa.org)Prior to 1638 - Connecticut, New England
1638 - 1662 - New Haven Colony
1662 - 1687 - Connecticut Colony
1688 - 1689 - Dominion of New England
1690 - 1787 - Crown Colony of Connecticut
January 5, 1788 - Connecticut becomes 5th U.S. state
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