Skip to contentA proclamation. By the President of the United States of America. : Whereas the Congress of the United States have this day resolved, "that it be recommended to the people of the United States to assemble on the twenty-second day of February next ... publickly to testify their grief for the death of Gen. George Washington ... therefore, I ... do hereby proclaim the same accordingly. Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Philadelphia, the sixth day of January ... one thousand eight hundred | Collections | The Huntington