This is a list of territorial governors in the 18th century (1701–1800) AD, such as the administrators of colonies, protectorates, and other dependencies. Where applicable, native rulers are also listed.
A dependent territory is normally does not have full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state yet remains politically outside of the controlling state's integral area. The administrators of uninhabited territories are excluded.
Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary Austro-Hungarian colonies
Belgium Belgium Belgian colonial empire
Britain Kingdom of Great Britain British colonial empire, English overseas possessions Monarchs – Prime ministers Monarchs Prime ministers
Americas North America
Bermuda Governors Benjamin Bennett, Governor (1701–1713) Henry Pulleine, Governor (1713–1718) Benjamin Bennett, Governor (1718–1722) John Hope, Governor (1722–1727) John Trimingham, Governor (1727–1728) John Pitt, Governor (1728–1737) Andrew Auchinleck, Governor (1737–1738) Alured Popple, Governor (1738–1744) Francis Jones, Governor (1744–1747) William Popple, Governor (1747–1751) Francis Jones, Governor (1751–1755) William Popple, Governor (1755–1763) Francis Jones, Governor (1763–1764) George James Bruere, Governor (1764–1780) Thomas Jones, Governor (1780) George Bruere the younger, Governor (1780–1781) William Browne, Governor (1782–1788) Henry Hamilton, Lieutenant governor (1788–1794) James Crawford, Governor (1794–1796) Henry Tucker, Governor (1796) William Campbell, Governor (1796) Henry Tucker, Governor (1796–1798) George Beckwith, Governor (1798–1803)
Connecticut Colony Governors Fitz-John Winthrop, Governor (1698–1707) Gurdon Saltonstall, Governor (1708–1724) Joseph Talcott, Governor (1724–1741) Jonathan Law, Governor (1741–1750) Roger Wolcott, Governor (1750–1754) Thomas Fitch, Governor (1754–1766) William Pitkin, Governor (1766–1769) Jonathan Trumbull, Governor (1769–1776)
Province of Carolina Governors James Moore, Governor (1700–1703) Nathaniel Johnson, Governor (1703–1709) Edward Tynte, Governor (1709–1710) Robert Gibbes, Governor (1710–1712) Charles Craven, Governor (1712) Deputy governors, for the northern Carolina Henderson Walker, Deputy governor (1699–1703) Robert Daniell, Deputy governor (1703–1705) Thomas Cary, Deputy governor (1705–1706) William Glover, Acting Deputy governor (1706–1708) Thomas Cary, Deputy governor (1708–1711)
Province of North Carolina Governors Edward Hyde, Governor (1712)
Province of South Carolina Governors Charles Craven, Governor (1712–1716)
Province of Maryland Governors Nathaniel Blakiston, Governor (1699–1702) Thomas Tench, Governor (1702–1704) Phillip Calvert, Governor (1704–1709) Jesse Wharton, Governor (1709–1714) John Hart, Governor (1714–1715) John Seymour, Governor (1715–1720) Thomas Brooke, Jr., Governor (1720) William Joseph, Governor (1720–1727) Thomas Lawrence, Governor (1727–1731) Samuel Ogle, Governor (1731–1732) Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, Governor (1732–1733) Samuel Ogle, Governor (1733–1742) Thomas Bladen, Governor (1742–1746/47 ) Samuel Ogle, Governor (1746/47–1752 ) Captain Charles Calvert,Yentsch, Anne E, p.55, A Chesapeake Family and their Slaves: a Study in Historical Archaeology, Cambridge University Press (1994) Retrieved January 2010Chapelle, Suzanne Ellery Greene, p.306, Maryland: A History of Its People Retrieved August 3, 2010 Governor (1752–1753) Horatio Sharpe, Governor (1753–1769) Robert Eden, Governor (1769–1776)
Province of Massachusetts Bay GovernorsUnless otherwise cited: Massachusetts Royal Commissions, pp. xxxiii–xxxv William Stoughton, Acting Governor (1700–1701) Governor's Council (1701–1702) Joseph Dudley, Governor (1702–1715) vacant William Tailer, Governor (1711–1715) Governor's Council (1715) Joseph Dudley, Governor (1715) William Tailer, Acting Governor (1715–1716) Samuel Shute, Governor (1716–1723) William Dummer, Acting Governor (1723–1728) William Burnet, Governor (1728–1729) William Dummer, Acting Governor (1729–1730) William Tailer, Acting Governor (1730) Jonathan Belcher, Governor (1730–1741) vacant Spencer Phips, Governor (1732–1757) William Shirley, Governor (1741–1749) Spencer Phips, Acting Governor (1749–1753) William Shirley, Governor (1753–1756) Spencer Phips, Acting Governor (1756–1757) Governor's Council (1757) Thomas Pownall, Governor (1757–1760) Thomas Hutchinson, Acting Governor (1760) Francis Bernard, Governor (1760–1769) Thomas Hutchinson, Acting Governor (1769–1771), Governor (1771–1774) Andrew Oliver, Governor (1771–1774) vacant Thomas Gage, Governor (1774–1775)This is the de facto end of Gage's tenure, when he departed Boston for the last time. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, p. 17:87 Thomas Oliver, Governor (1774–1776)This is the de facto end of Oliver's tenure, when he departed Boston for the last time. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, p. 17:96
Newfoundland Colony Lieutenant Governors of Placentia John Moody (governor), Governor (1714–1717) Martin Purcell (governor), Governor (1717) Samuel Gledhill, Governor (1717–1729) Commodore governors Henry Osborn, Commodore Governor (1729–1730) George Clinton, Commodore Governor (1731) Edward Falkingham, Commodore Governor (1732) The Viscount Muskerry, Commodore Governor (1733–1734) FitzRoy Henry Lee, Commodore Governor (1735–1737) Philip Vanbrugh, Commodore Governor (1738) Henry Medley, Commodore Governor (1739–1740) Thomas Smith, Commodore Governor (1741) John Byng, Commodore Governor (1742) Thomas Smith, Commodore Governor (1743) Charles Hardy, Commodore Governor (1744) Richard Edwards, Commodore Governor (1745) James Douglas, Commodore Governor (1746) John Bradstreet, Commodore Governor (1747) Charles Watson, Commodore Governor (1748) George Brydges Rodney, Commodore Governor (1749) Francis William Drake, Commodore Governor (1750–1752) Hugh Bonfoy, Commodore Governor (1753–1754) Richard Dorrill, Commodore Governor (1755–1756) Richard Edwards, Commodore Governor (1757–1759) James Webb, Commodore Governor (1760) Thomas Graves, Commodore Governor (1761–1763) Hugh Palliser, Commodore Governor (1764–1768) John Byron, Commodore Governor (1769–1771) Molyneux Shuldham, Commodore Governor (1772–1774) Robert Duff, Commodore Governor (1775) John Montagu, Commodore Governor (1776–1778) Richard Edwards, Commodore Governor (1779–1781) John Campbell, Commodore Governor (1782–1785) John Elliot, Commodore Governor (1786–1788) Mark Milbanke, Commodore Governor (1789–1791) Richard King, Commodore Governor (1792–1793) James Wallace, Commodore Governor (1794–1796) William Waldegrave, Commodore Governor (1797–1799) Charles Pole, Commodore Governor (1800–1801)
Province of New Hampshire Governors Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont, Governor (1697–1701/2)Unless otherwise cited: The Federal and State Constitutions, Volume 4, pp.2527–2531 Joseph Dudley, Governor (1702–1716) Samuel Shute, Governor (1716–1723) William Burnet, Governor (1729)Fry, p. 523. Extant copies of Burnet's commission have no date, but has a marginal annotation suggesting it was issued December 19, 1727. Jonathan Belcher, Governor (1729–1741) Benning Wentworth, Governor (1741–1767)Clark, p. 97 John Temple, Governor (1762–1774)Wilson, p. 106Fry, p. 87 John Wentworth, Governor (1766–1775)
Province of New Jersey Governors Andrew Hamilton, Governor (1699–1702)
Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Governors Samuel Cranston, Governor (1698–1727) Joseph Jenckes, Governor (1727–1732) William Wanton, Governor (1732–1733) John Wanton, Governor (1734–1740) Richard Ward, Governor (1740–1743) William Greene, Governor (1743–1745) Gideon Wanton, Governor (1745–1746) William Greene, Governor (1746–1747) Gideon Wanton, Governor (1747–1748) William Greene, Governor (1748–1755) Stephen Hopkins, Governor (1755–1757) William Greene, Governor (1757–1758) Stephen Hopkins, Governor (1758–1762) Samuel Ward, Governor (1762–1763) Stephen Hopkins, Governor (1763–1765) Samuel Ward, Governor (1765–1767) Stephen Hopkins, Governor (1767–1768) Josias Lyndon, Governor (1768–1769) Joseph Wanton, Governor (1769–1775) Nicholas Cooke, Governor (1775–1778)
Colony of Virginia Governors George Hamilton, Governor (1698–1737) Francis Nicholson, Lieutenant Governor (1698–1705) Edward Nott, Lieutenant Governor (1705–1706) Edmund Jenings, Acting Governor (1706–1710) General Robert Hunter, Lieutenant Governor (1707) Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant Governor (1710–1722) Hugh Drysdale, Lieutenant Governor (1722–1726) Robert Carter, President of the Council (1726–1727) William Gooch, Lieutenant Governor (1727–1740) Willem Anne van Keppel, Governor (1737–1754) James Blair, Acting Governor (1740–1741) William Gooch, Lieutenant Governor (1741–1749) Thomas Lee, Acting Governor (1749–1750) Lewis Burwell I/II, Acting Governor (1750–1751) Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor (1751–1756) John Campbell, Governor (1756–1759) Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor (1756–1758) Francis Fauquier, Lieutenant Governor (1758–1768) Jeffery Amherst, Governor (1759–1768) John Blair, Sr., Acting Governor (1768) Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Governor (1768–1770) William Nelson, Acting Governor (1770–1771) John Murray, Governor (1771–1775)
Caribbean
Colony of the Bahamas Governors Elias Haskett, Governor (1700–1701) Ellis Lightfoot, Governor (1701–1703) Edward Birch, Governor (1704) without British rule: see Republic of Pirates Woodes Rogers, Governor (1718–1721) George Phenney, Governor (1721–1728) Woodes Rogers, Governor (1729–1732) Richard Fitzwilliam, Acting Governor (1734–1738) John Tinker, Governor (1741–1758)More Monumental Inscriptions: Tombstones of the British West Indies by Vere Langford Oliver: "His Excellency John Tinker died 10 July 1758 aged 58. 18 years Governor and Commander-in-Chief over these Islands" John Gambier, Acting Governor (1758–1760) William Shirley, Governor (1760–1775)Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 27 by Isaac Kimber and Edward Kimber. "William Shirley is appointed Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Bahama Islands in the room of John Tinker deceased – 6 November 1758" Montfort Browne, Governor (1775–1776) John Gambier, Acting Governor (1776–1778) John Robert Maxwell, Governor (1780–1782) Spanish occupation (1782–1783) Andrew de Vau, Acting Governor (1783) John Robert Maxwell, Governor (1783–1784) James Edward Powell, Lieutenant governor (1784–1786) John Brown, Acting Governor (1786–1787) John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, Governor (1787–1796) Robert Hunt, Acting Governor (1796–1797) John Forbes, Lieutenant governor (1797) William Dowdeswell, Governor (1797–1801)
Barbados Governors Ralph Grey, Governor (1697–1701) John Farmer, Acting Governor (1701–1703) Bevil Granville, Governor (1703–1706) Mitford Crow, Governor (1707–1710) George Lillington, Acting Governor (1710–1711) Robert Lowther, Governor (1711–1720) William Sharpe, Acting for Lowther (1714–1715) John Frere, Acting Governor (1720–1721) Samuel Cox, Acting Governor (1721–1722) Henry Worsley, Governor (1722–1727) Thomas Catesby Paget, Governor (1727–1731) James Dotin, Acting Governor (1731) Walter Chetwynd, Governor (1731–1732) Emanuel Howe, Governor (1733–1735) James Dotin, Acting Governor (1735–1737) Orlando Bridgeman, Governor (1737–1738) Humphrey Howarth, Governor (1738) Thomas Gage, Governor (1738–1739) Robert Byng, Governor (1739–1740) James Dotin, Acting Governor (1740) Thomas Robinson, Governor (1742–1747) Henry Grenville, Governor (1747–1756) Charles Pinfold, Governor (1756–1766) Samuel Rous, Acting Governor (1766–1768) William Spry, Governor (1768–1772) Samuel Rous, Acting Governor (1772) Edward Hay, Governor (1772–1779) John Dotin, Acting Governor (1779–1780) James Cunninghame, Governor (1780–1782) John Dotin, Acting Governor (1783–1784) David Parry, Governor (1784–1793) William Bishop, Acting Governor (1793–1794) George Poyntz Ricketts, Governor (1794–1800) William Bishop, Acting Governor (1800–1801)