[Diary entry: 9 May 1798]

9. Morning clear with but little Wind. Mer. at 58. Wind afterwards fresh indeed hard from the Westward until Night when it ceased. Mer. at 64 at Night. Mr. Lewis went away after breakfast. I went to the Proclamn. Sermon in Alexandria.

sermon: On 23 Mar. 1798 Pres. John Adams issued a proclamation recommending that “as the United States of America are at present placed in a hazardous and afflictive situation, by the unfriendly disposition, conduct, and demands of a foreign power [France] . . . the 9th of May next, be observed throughout the United States, as a day of solemn humiliation, fasting and prayer” (ADAMS [2] description begins Charles Francis Adams, ed. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations. 10 vols. 1850–56. Reprint. New York, 1971. description ends , 9:169).

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Title: [Diary entry: 9 May 1798]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 9 May 1798

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 9 May 1798],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0007-0005-0009. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 6, 1 January 1790 – 13 December 1799, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, p. 296.]