Samuel Clift (ca. 1610 - 1683) was an early English settler in the Province of Pennsylvania.
Background edit
Clift obtained a grant of 262 acres (106 ha) from Edmund Andros, Provincial Governor of New York, for a plantation across the river from Burlington, New Jersey. Clift established the ferry service between Bristol in Pennsylvania and the New Jersey settlements.[1] He built the King George II Inn in Bristol to service the ferry business. In 1682 he deeded his land and ferry to his son-in-law Joseph English, Jr.[2]
He died in 1683.[2]
References edit
- ^ Marshall, Jeffrey (2013-03-13). "Bristol". Bucks County magazine.
- ^ a b Thompson, Margaret Drody. "Samuel Clift". Descendants of Founders of New Jersey. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
Further reading edit
- MacReynolds, George (1942). Place Names in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Doylestown: Bucks County Historical Society.
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