|
Year |
Colonial Power |
Events |
Governor
/ Gobernador |
|
1763-1783 |
Great Britain |
|
Arriving August 6, 1763:
interim military administration under
Augustin
Prevost |
| |
|
June 6, 1764: Territory extension
northward to the parallel at 32
degrees 28' |
|
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|
|
Appointed in 1763 but
arrived October 21, 1764:
George Johnstone,
until
January 13, 1767 (recalled) |
| |
|
|
Montfort Browne, interim,
1767-1769 |
| |
|
|
Arrived April 2, 1769:
John Eliot, until May 2, 1769 (suicide,
hung himself) |
| |
|
|
Elias
Durnford, interim,
1769-1770 |
| |
|
|
Arrived August 10, 1770:
Peter Chester, until surrender to the
Spanish at Pensacola on May 9, 1781 |
|
1783-1821 |
Spain |
1783 Peace of Paris |
Arturo O'Neill
de Tyrone y O'Kelly:
June 4, 1781-1792
(During
O'Neill's absences: Pedro Piernas as
acting governor 1785, Franscisco Cruzat
and Jacobo Dubreuil 1789) |
| |
The
Natchez District and its fort was
supervised separately and its governor
was under direct command of the
Spanish governor-general of Louisiana. Governor
of Natchez District from 1789-1797 was
Colonel Manuel Gayoso de Lemos,
after
which the U.S. acquired the area via the
Treaty of San Lorenzo. |
| |
|
|
Carlos
Howard 1792-1793 |
| |
|
|
Enrique White 1793-1795 |
| |
|
|
Francisco
de Paula Gelabert 1796 |
| |
|
1810:
West Florida Revolt
and
Republic of West Florida |
Juan
Vicente Folch y Juan 1796-1811 |
| |
|
|
Francisco
Maximiliano de San Maxent
(acting 1809-1811) official 1811-1812 |
| |
|
|
Mauricio de Zuñiga
1812-1813 |
| |
|
The
War of 1812 reaches West Florida. |
Mateo González Manrique
1813-1815 |
| |
|
|
José de Soto 1815-1816 |
| |
|
|
Mauricio de Zuñiga 1816 |
| |
|
|
Francisco
Maximiliano de San Maxent 1816 |
| |
|
|
José Fascot
(Masot)
1816-1819 with the following
interruption:
Colonel William King
(United States) May 26, 1818 -
February 4, 1819 |
| |
|
|
José María Callava
February
1819 until transfer of the territory to
the United States in July 1821 by means
of the
Adams-Onis Treaty. |
