Cadwallader Colden was an Irish-born physician, scientist and colonial administrator who served as the governor of New York from 1760 to 1762 and again from 1763 to 1765.
Portrait by John Wollaston, c. 1750
1772 portrait of Colden by Matthew Pratt
Cadwallader Colden and His Grandson Warren De Lancey by Matthew Pratt, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ca. 1772
William Burnet was a British civil servant and colonial administrator who served as governor of New York and New Jersey and Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Born into a position of privilege, Burnet w
Portrait by John Watson
Robert Livingston advised Burnet in New York