Hale Homestead

This Coventry farmhouse was the boyhood home of Nathan Hale, the Revolutionary War spy executed by the British in 1776. Attorney Dudley Seymour, who bought the property in 1914 and dedicated much of his life to popularizing Hale's story, reported seeing the ghost of Hale's father, Deacon Richard Hale, peering out of a window. Visitors and caretakers over the years have described a servant's ghost sweeping the upper hall and the sound of footsteps pacing the floors, popularly attributed to Nathan Hale himself.