William Burnet, Dutch-American civil servant and politician, 21st Governor of the province of New York (born 1688)

William Burnet (colonial administrator)

British governor of New York and New Jersey

William Burnet was a British civil servant and colonial administrator who served as governor of New York and New Jersey (1720–1728) and Massachusetts and New Hampshire (1728–1729). Born into a position of privilege, Burnet was well-educated, tutored among others by Isaac Newton.

List of colonial governors of New York

The territory which would later become the state of New York was settled by European colonists as part of the New Netherland colony under the command of the Dutch West India Company in the Seventeenth Century. These colonists were largely of Dutch, Flemish, Walloon, and German…