Portrait, painting of his hanging, photos from Nathan Hale Cemetery, biography, map, and interactive visitor comments from Find A Grave.

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.

Biographical sketch.

In the pantheon of revolutionary heroes there stands a flaxen-haired, blue-eyed young man, a handsome former schoolteacher, fair of skin and athletic in build, full of hope and promise, fated for an untimely death. He was Nathan Hale.

An extensive biography on this Revolutionary American martyr Nathan Hale.

Biographical information on the individual who is Connecticut's State Hero.