[1] The inn was a main stopping point on the road from New York to Philadelphia.

[2] The inn overlooks the Delaware River and is located at the corner of Radcliffe and Mill Streets in the Bristol Historic District.

[3] Samuel Clift obtained from Sir Edmund Andros, Provincial Governor of New York, a grant of 262 acres (106 ha) for a plantation across the river from Burlington, New Jersey, the site of Bristol in Pennsylvania.

The property was leased by Michael Hurst in 1684 and was subsequently opened as an inn by Thomas Brook in 1705.

[2] The Mundy family purchased the inn in the mid 1950s and operated it as The Ye Olde Delaware House.