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Achieving success in battle, he was again promoted to colonel on April 2, 1777. Hale was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment on November 8, 1776. The colonies suffered 450 casualties and the British suffered 1,054 casualties in what has been described as a British Pyrrhic victory. The Army of Observation (consisting of militiamen from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island) had about 2,400 men and the British had over 3,000. They fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. On June 2, 1775, Hale was commissioned as a captain in the 3rd New Hampshire Regiment. Once Hale was told of the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775, he and his fifty men marched to Cambridge, Massachusetts to join the Army of Observation. In 1774, Hale became the captain of a militia company of minutemen. When the town of Rindge was organized in 1768, Hale was chosen the first constable of the town, and served as the moderator of the annual town meetings in 1773, 17 John and Joanna (Boynton) Grout of Lunenburg, Massachusetts. He married Abigail Grout, daughter of Col.
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In his teens, Hale moved with his family to the area that would become Rindge, New Hampshire. There is no known relation between Colonel Nathan Hale and Captain Nathan Hale, the American spy hanged by the British in 1776. He was a descendant of Thomas Hale of Newbury, Massachusetts, who arrived in 1637 from Watton-At-Stone, Hertfordshire, England as the latter part of the Winthrop Fleet and Great Migration. Nathan Hale was born in Hampstead, New Hampshire, son of Moses and Elizabeth (Wheeler) Hale.