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Early Life and Career
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Nathan HaleSome say intelligence gatherers or spies come from the most
unlikely backgrounds, and I guess that applies to me. Throughout history you will see men and women from many backgrounds step forward to serve their country in this particular way, and I was no exception.
I was born June 6, 1755, in Coventry, Connecticut, to a family with 12 children! I was good at athletics and scholarship, and I entered Yale
at 14 with the intent of being a schoolteacher. I graduated in 1773 and taught school for two years, but a greater calling then took me elsewhere. On July 6, 1775, I was commissioned a lieutenant in the Seventh Connecticut militia and later joined the Continental Army in the Nineteenth Continental Regiment and was stationed in Boston.
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