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List of colonial governors of North Carolina
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This is a list of the colonial governors of the Province of North Carolina and preceding British colonies in the same region.
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- Ralph Lane, 1585 - 1586
- John White, 1587
- William Drummond 1664-1667
- Samuel Stephens 1667-1669
- Peter Carteret 1670-1672
- John Jenkins 1672-1675
- Thomas Eastchurch 1675-1676
- John Jenkins 1676-1677
- Thomas Miller 1677
- John Harvey 1679
- Henry Wilkinson 1680
- John Jenkins 1680-1681
- Seth Sothel 1682-1689
- John Gibbs 1689-1690
- Thomas Jarvis 1690-1694
- Philip Ludwell 1690-1691, 1692-1693 (Governor of both North and South Carolina), 1693-1695
- Thomas Harvey 1694-1699
- John Archdale 1695-1696 (Governor of both North and South Carolina)
- Henderson Walker 1699-1703
- Robert Daniel 1703-1705
- Thomas Cary 1705-1711
- William Glover 1706-1710
- Edward Hyde 1711-1712
- Thomas Pollock 1712-1714 (acting)
- Charles Eden 1714-1722
- Thomas Pollock 1722 (acting)
- William Reed 1722-1724 (acting)
- George Burrington 1724-1725
- Richard Everard 1725-1731
- George Burrington 1731-1734
- Nathaniel Rice 1734 (acting)
- Gabriel Johnston 1734-1752
- Nathaniel Rice 1752-1753 (acting)
- Matthew Rowan 1753-1754 (acting)
- Arthur Dobbs 1753-1765
- William Tryon 1765-1771
- James Hasell 1771, 1774 (acting)
- Josiah Martin 1771-1775 (Martin considered himself to remain in office throughout the Revolutionary War, but he left North Carolina in July of 1775)