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| Sir Thomas Gates 23 May 1610 - 10 Jun 1610 |
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| Thomas West, Baron de la Warr 10 Jun 1610 - 7 Jun 1618 |
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| George Percy 28 Mar 1611 - 19 May 1611 |
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| Thomas Dale 19 May 1611 - Aug 1611 |
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| Sir Thomas Gates Aug 1611 - Mar 1612 |
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| Thomas Dale Mar 1612 - Apr 1616 |
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| George Yeardley Apr 1616 - 9 Apr 1617 |
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| Samuel Argall 9 Apr 1617 - 9 Apr 1619 |
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| Nathaniel Powell 9 Apr 1619 - 19 Apr 1619 |
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| George Yeardley 19 Apr 1619 - 18 Nov 1621 |
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| Sir Francis Wyatt 18 Nov 1621 - 24 May 1626 |
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| George Yeardley Jun 1626 - 14 Nov 1627 |
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| Francis West 14 Nov 1627 - 5 Mar 1628 |
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| John Pott 5 Mar 1628 - Mar 1630 |
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| Sir John Harvey Mar 1630 - 7 May 1635 |
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| John West 7 May 1635 - 18 Jan 1637 |
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| Sir John Harvey 18 Jan 1637 - Nov 1639 |
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| Sir Francis Wyatt Nov 1639 - Feb 1642 |
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| Sir William Berkeley Feb 1642 - 30 Apr 1652 |
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| Richard Kemp Jun 1644 - 7 Jun 1645 |
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| Richard Bennett 30 Apr 1652 - 13 Mar 1655 |
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| Edward Digges 13 Mar 1655 - Dec 1656 |
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| Samuel Mathews Dec 1656 - Jan 1660 |
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| Sir William Berkeley 23 Mar 1660 - 27 Apr 1677 |
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| Francis Moryson 30 Apr 1661 - Nov 1662 |
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| Herbert Jeffreys 27 Apr 1677 - 17 Dec 1678 |
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| Thomas Culpeper, Baron Culpeper 20 Jul 1677 - Aug 1683 |
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| Sir Henry Chicheley 30 Dec 1678 - 10 May 1680 |
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| Sir Henry Chicheley 11 Aug 1680 - Dec 1682 |
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| Nicholas Spencer 22 May 1683 - 15 Apr 1684 |
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| Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham 28 Sep 1683 - 1 Mar 1692 |
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| Nathaniel Bacon Jun 1684 - Sep 1684 |
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| Nathaniel Bacon Jul 1687 - Sep 1687 |
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| Nathaniel Bacon Feb 1689 - 3 Jun 1690 |
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| Francis Nicholson 3 Jun 1690 - 20 Sep 1692 |
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| Sir Edmund Andros 20 Sep 1692 - 9 Dec 1698 |
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| Ralph Wormeley Sep 1698 - Oct 1698 |
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| Francis Nicholson 9 Dec 1698 - 15 Aug 1705 |
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William Byrd Sep 1700 - 24 Oct 1700 |
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William Byrd Apr 1703 - Jun 1703 |
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William Byrd Aug 1704 - Sep 1704 |
| George Hamilton Douglas, Earl of Orkney 1704 - 29 Jul 1737 |
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| Edward Nott 15 Aug 1705 - 23 Aug 1706 |
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| Edmund Jennings 27 Aug 1706 - 23 Jun 1710 |
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| Alexander Spotswood 23 Jun 1710 - 8 Sep 1722 |
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| Hugh Drysdale 8 Sep 1722 - 11 Jul 1726 |
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| Robert Carter 11 Jul 1726 - 8 Sep 1727 |
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| Sir William Gooch 8 Sep 1727 - 20 Jun 1749 |
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| William Anne Keppel, Earl of Albemarle 6 Sep 1737 - 22 Dec 1754 |
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| John Robinson 20 Jun 1749 - 5 Sep 1749 |
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| Thomas Lee 5 Sep 1749 - 14 Nov 1750 |
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| Lewis Burwell 14 Nov 1750 - 20 Nov 1751 |
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| Robert Dinwiddie 20 Nov 1751 - Jan 1758 |
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| John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun Jul 1756 - 1763 |
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| John Blair Jan 1758 - 7 Jun 1758 |
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| Francis Fauquier 7 Jun 1758 - 7 Mar 1768 |
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| Jeffrey Amherst 1763 - 28 Oct 1768 |
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| John Blair 7 Mar 1768 - 28 Oct 1768 |
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| Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt 28 Oct 1768 - 15 Oct 1770 |
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| William Nelson 15 Oct 1770 - 25 Sep 1771 |
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| John Murray, Earl of Dunmore 25 Sep 1771 - 29 Jun 1776 |
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