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Colonial Governors of Massachusetts

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This project collects Massachusetts governors prior to the establishment of the Massachusetts State Constitution in 1780.

Governors of Massachusetts after 1780 should be added to Massachusetts Governors.

Popham Colony: 1607-1608

George Popham
Raleigh Gilbert

Plymouth Colony: 1620-1686, 1689-1692

1st John Carver
2nd William Bradford
3rd Edward Winslow
4th Thomas Prence
5th William Bradford
6th Edward Winslow
7th William Bradford
8th Thomas Prence
9th William Bradford
10th Edward Winslow
11th William Bradford
12th Thomas Prence
13th Josiah Winslow
14th Thomas Hinckley
15th Thomas Hinckley

Wessagusset Colony: 1622-1623

Richard Greene
John Sanders

Governor-General of New England: 1623-1624

Robert Gorges

Massachusetts Bay Colony: 1629-1686, 1689-1692

Matthew Cradock
John Endecott
John Winthrop
Thomas Dudley
John Haynes
Sir Henry Vane the Younger
John Winthrop
Thomas Dudley
Richard Bellingham
John Winthrop
John Endecott
Thomas Dudley
John Winthrop
John Endecott
Thomas Dudley
John Endecott
Richard Bellingham
John Endecott
Richard Bellingham
John Leverett
Simon Bradstreet
Simon Bradstreet

Dominion of New England: 1686-1689

Joseph Dudley
Sir Edmund Andros

Province of Massachusetts Bay: 1692-1775

Sir William Phips
William Stoughton
Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont
William Stoughton
Joseph Dudley
Joseph Dudley
William Tailer
Samuel Shute
William Dummer
William Burnet
William Dummer
William Tailer
Jonathan Belcher
William Shirley
Spencer Phips
William Shirley
Spencer Phips
Thomas Pownall
Thomas Hutchinson
Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet
Thomas Hutchinson
The Honorable Thomas Gage

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