This is a list of colonial governors during British rule:

See also a list of governors since 1777: List of Governors of New York Richard Nicolls (born 1624 in Ampthill, Bedfordshire; died May 28, 1672 on the North Sea, off Suffolk) was the first American colonial governor of New York. ... Francis Lovelace (c. ... Sir Edmund Andros (December 6, 1637 - February 24, 1714), was an early colonial governor in North America, and head of the short-lived Dominion of New England. ... Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick (1634-1715), was a member of Irish Parliament, Royalist military officer during the English Civil War, and governor of the Province of New York. ... Portrait thought to be Nicholson Sir Francis Nicholson (1655-1728) was a British military officer and was colonial governor or acting governor of New York, Virginia, Maryland, Nova Scotia, and South Carolina. ... Benjamin Fletcher (1640-1703) was colonial governor of New York from 1692 to 1697. ... Colonel John Montgomerie was colonial governor of New York from 1728 to 1731. ... William Cosby (1690 - Stradbally Hall,,Queens,Ireland - March 10, 1736 at Fort George, New York) was colonial governor of New York from 1732 to 1736. ... George Clinton (c. ... James DeLancey (1703-1760) was acting colonial governor of New York from 1753 to 1755. ... Sir Charles Hardy (c. ... James DeLancey (1703-1760) was acting colonial governor of New York from 1753 to 1755. ... Cadwallader Colden ( February 7, 1688 – September 20, 1776 ) was a physician, farmer, surveyor, botanist, and a lieutenant governor for the Province of New York. ... Robert Monckton (24 June 1726 – 21 May 1782) was an officer of the British army, and a colonial administrator in British North America. ... Cadwallader Colden ( February 7, 1688 – September 20, 1776 ) was a physician, farmer, surveyor, botanist, and a lieutenant governor for the Province of New York. ... Sir Henry Moore, Baronet (1713-1769) was a British colonial leader who served as royal Governor of New York from 1765 to 1769. ... Cadwallader Colden ( February 7, 1688 – September 20, 1776 ) was a physician, farmer, surveyor, botanist, and a lieutenant governor for the Province of New York. ... Lord Dunmore John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730–February 25, 1809) was the British governor of the Province of New York from 1770 to 1771 and the Virginia Colony, from September 25, 1771 until just before the American Revolutionary War began in June 1775. ... William Tryon (January 27, 1729 to 1788) was colonial governor of the Province of North Carolina (1765-1771) and the Province of New York (1771-1780, though he did not retain much power in the colony beyond 1777). ... This is a list of the Governors of New York. ...