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List of Colonial Governors of N.J.

This is a list of governors of the Province of New Jersey, including the period of its division into West Jersey and East Jersey, up to the American Revolution.

Contents

Governors under the Proprietors (1665-1674)

See also: Lords Proprietor (1665-1703), Proprietary colony, and Proprietary Governor

Name

Term

Philip Carteret 1665-1672
John Berry 1672-1673
Anthony Colve 1673-1674

[Governors of East Jersey (1674-1702)

See also: Lords Proprietor(1665-1703)

Name

Term

Notes

Philip Carteret 1674-1682
Robert Barclay 1682-1688
Edmund Andros 1688-1689 Governed as the Dominion of New England
Andrew Hamilton 1692-1697
Jeremiah Basse 1698-1699
Andrew Hamilton 1699-1702

Governors of West Jersey (1680-1702)

See also: Lords Proprietor(1665-1703)

Name

Term

Edward Byllynge 1680-1687
Daniel Coxe 1687-1688
Edmund Andros 1688-1689
Andrew Hamilton 1692-1697
Jeremiah Basse 1697-1699
Andrew Hamilton 1699-1702

Governors under Royal Government (1702-1776)

Governors of New York and New Jersey (1702-1738)

See also: Province of New York

Name

Term

Notes

Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury 1701-1708
John Lovelace 1708-1709
Richard Ingoldesby 1709-1710 Lieutenant and Governor
Robert Hunter 1710-1720
William Burnet 1720-1728
John Montgomerie 1728-1731
Lewis Morris 1731-1732 President Of Council
William Cosby 1732-1736
John Anderson 1736 President Of Council
John Hamilton 1736-1738 President Of Council

Governors of New Jersey only (1738-1776)

See also: Proprietary House

Name

Term

Notes

Lewis Morris 1738-1746
John Hamilton 1746-1747 President Of Council
John Reading 1747 President Of Council
Jonathan Belcher 1747-1757
1757 Lieut. Governor: Thomas Pownall
John Reading 1757-1758 President Of Council
Francis Bernard 1758-1760
Thomas Boone 1760-1761
Josiah Hardy 1761-1763
William Franklin 1763-1776
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