Richard was the son of John McGriff of Tazwell, Virginia.

He married Sarah Amberson 1780 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. They lived in the York County, Pennsylvania area. By 1795 the family had moved to Bourbon County,Kentucky, and can be found on the tax tables there until 1806 when they moved to Ohio. Settling in Greenville, Ohio.

Thanks for all the hard work of the Fort GreeneVille Chapter of the DAR for finding the following info on Richard.

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DAR- Fort GreeneVille Chapter July 13,2017
This is what our researchers have determined:

1820 Census Wayne Township Darke County lists the following as neighbors on the same census page:

Richard McGriff
William McGriff- son of Richard- whose wife is Elizabeth Hole, daughter of Zachariah Hole

William McGriff and Elizabeth Hole married 6 May 1812 Preble County Ohio.

Zachariah Hole - father of Elizabeth Hole McGriff buried at Black Swamp.

James Hole- son of Zachariah buried at Black Swamp.

All of the above lived in Kentucky, moved to Ohio, ending up in Preble County, the county to the south of Darke before all moving to Darke County Ohio.

Another son, another page, William Hole and wife deeded land for graveyard in 1827 now Black Swamp./Greenlawn.. There had already been several burials there the first known in 1821.

By 1830 William and Elizabeth Hole McGriff had returned to Preble county Ohio to Live. They are both buried at Mound cemetery Preble County Ohio

Also would you mind in his bio adding in front of the DAR- Fort GreeneVille Chapter, correct spelling,
We have a DAR member who has done the Hole family with marriages

Here is his oath from the PA archives:

I, Richard Mcgriff Having Engaged to serve as Pennsyl-
vania Volentars in Capt. Nesbit's Company of the Sixth Battalien of Militia of the county of York in the State of Pennsylvania Do hereby engage to be true & faithful in
said service untill the fifeenth Day of january nixt unless Sooner Discharged & to be Obedient to the authority of Said State & my Suparier offisers according to the Rules & Disiplin of war & the Establishment of the Corps.
I am Now Entred
Testey this Day of June 1780

Witness Present Richard McGriff
Matthew McMullin
James Stevenson

They will be placing a Revolutionary War Memorial later this summer, in this cemetery.
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