Gerard Bancker (sometimes Latin Gerardus, or colloquial
Dutch
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People E ...
Gerrit) (14 February 1740 in
Albany, New York
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– January 1799) was an American surveyor and politician.
Life
Bancker was the son of Gerard Bancker Sr. and Maria de Peyster, who had married in
New York City
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in 1731. He was the grandson of
Johannes de Peyster (1666–1719), the 23rd
Mayor of New York City
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between 1698 and 1699,
[Wilson, James Grant (ed.]
The memorial history of the City of New-York, Vol. II
p. 54 (1892) and great-grandson of
Johannes de Peyster, Sr.
Johannes de Peyster Sr. (born in Haarlem, Holland, about 1600; died in New Amsterdam (now New York City) about 1685) was a Dutch merchant who immigrated to New Netherland some time before 1651. He was the patriarch of a long line of influential ...
, the Huguenot first settler of the De Peyster family in North America.
[Allaben, Frank]
John Watts de Peyster, Volume 1
p. 18-19 (1908)[Manual of the corporation of the city of New York](_blank)
p. 395-96 (1853)
Bancker was elected to the
American Philosophical Society
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in 1772, and in 1774, as city
surveyor
Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is c ...
, he made a map of St. George's Ferry on
Nassau Island.
He was Deputy Treasurer from 1776 to 1778, and
New York State Treasurer The New York State Treasurer was a state cabinet officer in the State of New York between 1776 and 1926. During the re-organization of the state government under Governor Al Smith, the office was abolished and its responsibilities transferred to the ...
from 1778 to 1798.
He collected a large number of
broadsides from the revolutionary era which were sold at auction in 1898 in
Philadelphia
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.
The sale, in NYT on April 2, 1898
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Notes
Sources
''The New York Civil List'' compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 35; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) (Google Books)
1740 births
1799 deaths
New York State Treasurers
De Peyster family
Politicians from New York City
American art collectors
American surveyors
American cartographers
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