List of colonial governors of New York

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

See also

• Director-General of New Netherland, for a list of the Governors of New Netherland from 1624 to 1664.
• List of Governors of New York, for a list of the Governors of the State of New York since 1777.

References

• Colonial Governors of NY