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

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