Nathan Hale's speech (pre-1812 in Early American Newspapers?)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Fred Shapiro wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>> Another Early American Newspapers request. What does Fred (or anyone else)
>> have for Nathan Hale's final speech (and the speech as we now know it)?
>
> There's nothing pre-1812 in America's Historical Newspapers.  I do,
> however, see an 1805 occurrence in Shaw-Shoemaker.

Actually, there's a 1799 occurrence in Evans Digital Edition.

Fred Shapiro


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