List of Colonial Governors of New York

November 16, 2011

This is a list of colonial governors of the Province of New York during British rule:

#	Name	Term
1	Richard Nicolls	1664-1668 as military governor
2	Francis Lovelace	1668-1672
3	Anthony Colve	1673-1674 under restored Netherlands rule
4	Sir Edmund Andros	1674-1681
5	Anthony Brockholls	1681-1683 as acting governor
6	Thomas Dongan	1683-1688
7	Francis Nicholson	1688-1691 (de facto only until June 1689)
8	Jacob Leisler	1689-1691 in rebellion
9	Henry Sloughter	1691
10	Richard Ingoldesby	1691-1692 as acting governor
11	Benjamin Fletcher	1692-1697
12	Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont	1698-1701
13	John Nanfan	1701-1702 as acting governor
14	Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury	1702-1708
15	John Lovelace, 4th Baron Lovelace	1708-1709
16	Peter Schuyler	1708-1709 as acting governor
17	Richard Ingoldesby	1709-1710 as acting governor
18	Gerardus Beekman	1710 as acting governor
19	General Robert Hunter	1710-1718
20	Peter Schuyler	1719-1720 as acting governor
21	William Burnet	1720-1728
22	John Montgomerie	1728-1731
23	Rip Van Dam	1731-1732 as acting governor
24	Sir William Cosby	1732-1736
25	George Clarke	1736-1743 as acting governor
26	Admiral of the Fleet The Hon. George Clinton	1743-1753
27	Sir Danvers Osborn, 3rd Baronet	1753-1753
28	James DeLancey	1753-1755 as acting governor
29	Admiral Sir Charles Hardy	1755-1758
30	James DeLancey	1758-1760 as acting governor
31	Cadwallader Colden	1760-1762 as acting governor
32	Lieutenant-General Robert Monckton	1762-1763
33	Cadwallader Colden	1763-1765 as acting governor
34	Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet	1765-1769
35	Cadwallader Colden	1769-1770 as acting governor
36	John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore	1770-1771
37	William Tryon	1771-1774
38	Cadwallader Colden	1774-1775 as acting governor
39	William Tryon	1775-1780
40	General James Robertson	1780-1783 as military governor
41	Andrew Elliot	April 17 – Nov. 25, 1783 as military governor