Samuel Clift

Samuel Clift (ca. 1610 - 1683) was an early English settler in the Province of Pennsylvania.

Background
Clift obtained a grant of 262 acre 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.