DEPARTMENTS, DISTRICTS, AND COUNTIES EMBRACED

IN A GENERAL TERM OF THE SUPREME COURT

APPENDIX

COLONIAL AND STATE OFFICERS OF

Adrian Joris, 1623.

NEW YORK

Colonial Governors

Cornelius Jacobzen Mey, 1624.

William Verhulst, 1625.

Peter Minuit, May 4, 1626.

Wouter Van Twiller, April, 1633.
William Kieft, March 28, 1638.
Petrus Stuyvesant, May 11, 1647.
Richard Nicolls, September 8, 1664.

Francis Lovelace, August 17, 1668.

Cornelius Evertse, Jr., and a council of war, August (N. S.) 12, 1673.

Anthony Colve, September 19, 1673.

Edmond Andros, November (N. S.) 10, 1674.

Anthony Brock holles, Commander-in-Chief, November 16, 1677.

Sir Edmond Andros, Knt., August 7, 1678.

Anthony Brockholles, Commander-in-Chief, January (N. S.) 13. 1681.

Thomas Dongan, August 27, 1683.

Sir Edmond Andros, August 11, 1688.

Francis Nicholson, Lieutenant-Governor, October 9, 1688.

Jacob Leisler, June 3, 1689.

Henry Sloughter, March 19, 1691.

Richard Ingoldesby, Commander-in-Chief, July 26, 1691.

Benjamin Fletcher, August 30, 1692.

Earl of Bellomont, April 13, 1698.

John Nanfan, Lieutenant-Governor, May 17, 1699.

Earl of Bellomont, July 24, 1700.

Col. William Smith, Col Abraham De Peyster, Col. Peter Schuyler,* March 5, 1701, to May 19, 1701.

John Nanfan, Lieutenant-Governor, May 19, 1701.
Lord Cornbury May 3, 1702.

Lord Lovelace, December 18, 1708.

Peter Schuyler, President, May 6, 1709.

Richard Ingoldesby, Lieutenant-Governor, May 9, 1709.

Peter Schuyler, President, May 25, 1709.

Richard Ingoldesby, Lieutenant-Governor, June 1, 1709.
Gerardus Beekman, President, April 10, 1710.

Robert Hunter, June 14, 1710.

Peter Schuyler, President, July 21, 1719.

William Burnet, September 17, 1720.
John Montgomerie, April 15, 1728.
Rip Van Dam, President, July 1, 1731.
William Cosby, August 1, 1732.

George Clarke, President, March 10, 1736.

George Clarke, Lieutenant-Governor, October 30, 1736.
George Clinton, September 2, 1743.

Sir Danvers Osborne, Bart., October 10, 1753.

James De Lancey, Lieutenant-Governor, October 12, 1755.
Sir Charles Hardy, Knt., September 3, 1755.

James De Lancey, Lieutenant-Governor, June 3, 1757.
Cadwallader Colden, President, August 4, 1760.

Cadwallader Colden, Lieutenant-Governor, August 8, 1761.

Robert Monckton, October 26, 1761.

Cadwallader Colden, Lieutenant-Governor, November 18, 1761. Robert Monckton, June 14, 1762.

Cadwallader Colden, Lieutenant-Governor, June 28, 1763.

Sir Henry Moore, Bart., November 13, 1765.

Cadwallader Colden, Lieutenant-Governor, September 12, 1769. Earl of Dunmore, October 19, 1770.

William Tryon, July 9, 1771.

Cadwallader Colden, Lieutenant-Governor, April 7, 1774.

William Tryon, June 28, 1775.

James Robertson,† March 23, 1780.

Andrew Elliott,+ Lieutenant-Governor, April 17, 1783.

Peter Van Brugh Livingston, May 23, 1775.

The Earl of Bellomont died March 5, 1701. During the absence of Lieutenant-Governor Nanfan, and until May 19, 1701, the government was administered by the council, at which the oldest councilor presided during this period.

Military governors during the Revolutionary War not recognized by the state of New York.

The Provincial Congress, etc.

Nathaniel Woodhull, President pro tem., August 28, 1775. Abraham Yates, Jr., President pro tem., November 2, 1775. Nathaniel Woodhull, December 6, 1775.

Pierre Van Cortlandt, President Council Safety, May 14, 1777.

Abraham Yates, Jr., President pro tem., August 10, 1776.
John Harding, President pro tem., December 16, 1775.
Abraham Yates, Jr., August 28, 1776.

Leonard Gansevoort, President pro tem., April 18, 1777.

Peter R. Livingston, September 26, 1776.
Abraham Ten Broeck, March 6, 1777.

Note: Nol includes wards 3, 4 and 5 only in Queens co. Wards No. land 2 No.8 embraces Assembly Districts No. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 in New York Co.

are in No 1.

*The Constitution of 1777 did not specify the time when the governor should enter on the duties of his office. Governor Clinton was declared elected July 9th, and qualified on the above day. On the 13th of February, 1787, an act was passed for regulating elections, which provided that the governor and lieutenant-governor should enter on the duties of their respective offices on the 1st of July after their election. +Lieutenant-governor, acting governor.

The Constitution of 1821 provided that the governor and lieutenantgovernor shall, on and after the year 1923, enter on the duties of their respective offices on the 1st of January.

Lieutenant-governor became governor upon resignation of Martin Van Buren, March 12, 1829. Elected November. 1830, for a full term.

Elected President of the United States in 1884, and resigned the office of governor January 6, 1885.

Lieutenant-governor, became governor upon resignation of Grover Cleveland, January 6, 1885. Elected November 6, 1885, for a full term, and re-elected November 6, 1888.