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| | Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting |
 | | The retirement of Friends from public affairs helped to stimulate their zeal for purely moral causes, such as the abolition of slavery, the welfare of the Negroes and the Indians, the work for social morality, the suppression of liquor traffic, and prison reform. |
 | | The eastern boundary was the Hocking River, the southern was the Ohio River, but there was no limit to the north or to the west. |
 | | Ohio Yearly Meeting approved the proposal, and the first session was held at Whitewater, Eighth month 10, 1821. |
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