Samuel Clift
English settler in Pennsylvania
About Samuel Clift
Lived 1610 – 1683 (aged 72–73).
Samuel Clift (ca. 1610 - 1683) was an early English settler in the Province of Pennsylvania.
Background Clift obtained a grant of 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. 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.
He died in 1683.
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Who was Samuel Clift?
English settler in Pennsylvania (c. 1610–1683)
When was Samuel Clift born?
Samuel Clift was born in 1610.
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Samuel Clift died in 1683.
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