NYC Mayors List

Mayoral Administrations Until Emancipation

  1. Thomas Willett, 1665-1666
  2. Thomas Delavall, 1666-1667
  3. Thomas Willett, 1667-1668
  4. Cornelius Van Steenwyk, 1668-1670
  5. Thomas Delavall, 1670-1671
  6. Matthias Nicoll, 1671-1672
  7. John Lawrence, 1672-1673
  • 1673: Dutch occupation in August
  • 1674: English control in November
  1. Matthias Nicoll, 1674-1675
  2. William Dervall, 1675-1676
  3. Nicholas De Meyer, 1676-1677
  4. Stephanus Van Cortlandt, 1677-1678
  5. Thomas Delavall, 1678-1679
  6. Francis Rombouts, 1679-1680
  7. William Dyre, 1680-1683*
  • William Beekman, acting, 1681-1683
  1. Cornelius Van Steenwyk, 1683-1684
  2. Gabriel Minvielle, 1684-1685
  3. Nicholas Bayard, 1685-1687
  4. Stephanus Van Cortlandt, 1687-1689
  5. Peter Delanoy, 1689-1691
  6. John Lawrence, 1691
  7. Abraham DePeyster, 1691-1694
  8. Charles Lodwik, 1694-1695*
  9. William Merritt, 1696-1698
  10. Johannes De Peyster, 1698-1699
  11. David Provost, 1699-1700
  12. Isaac De Reimer, 1700-1701
  13. Thomas Noell, 1701-1702
  14. Phillip French, Acting, then Mayor, 1702-1703
  15. William Peartree, 1703-1707
  16. Ebenezer Wilson, 1707-1710
  17. Jacobus Van Cortlandt, 1710-1711
  18. Caleb Heathcote, 1711-1714
  19. John Johnston, 1714-1719*
  20. Jacobus Van Cortlandt, 1719-1720
  21. Robert Walters, 1720-1725
  22. Johannes Jansen, 1725-1726*
  23. Robert Lurting, 1726-1735
  24. Paul Richard, 1735-1739
  25. John Cruger, 1739-1744
  • Gerardus Stuyvesant, acting, 1744
  1. Stephen Bayard, 1744-1747
  2. Edward Holland, 1747-1756
  3. John Cruger, Jr., 1756-1766
  4. Whitehead Hicks, 1766-1776
  5. David Matthews, 1776-1783
  6. James Duane, 1784-1789
  7. Richard Varick, 1789-1801
  8. Edward Livingston, 1801-1803
  9. DeWitt Clinton, 1803-1807
  10. Marinus Willett, 1807-1808
  11. DeWitt Clinton, 1808-1810
  12. Jacob Radcliff, 1810-1811
  13. DeWitt Clinton, 1811-1815
  14. John Ferguson, 1815*
  15. Jacob Radcliff, 1815-1818
  16. Cadwallader D. Colden, 1818-1821
  17. Stephen Allen, 1821-1824
  18. William Paulding Jr., 1825-1826*
  19. Philip Hone, 1826-1827
  20. William Paulding Jr., 1827-1829 (mayor on July 4, 1827)*

*No documentation of direct participation in slavery. It is likely that a free person in Paulding’s home was an indentured servant under the 1799 gradual emancipation law.

The list of mayors comes from Minutes of the Common Council (1675-1776), Vol. VIII, p.149-150

 

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