Gerard Bancker (sometimes Latin Gerardus, or colloquial

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Gerrit) (14 February 1740 in

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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

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in 1731. He was the grandson of

Johannes de Peyster Johannes de Peyster or Johannes de Peyster II (September 21, 1666 – September 25, 1711) was the 23rd Mayor of New York City between 1698 and 1699.Wilson, James Grant (ed.The memorial history of the City of New-York, Vol. II p. 54 (1892)Allaben, ...

(1666–1719), the 23rd

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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., 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
p. 395-96 (1853) Bancker was elected to the

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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. These points are usually on the ...

, he made a map of St. George's Ferry on Nassau Island. He was Deputy Treasurer from 1776 to 1778, and

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from 1778 to 1798. He collected a large number of broadsides from the revolutionary era which were sold at auction in 1898 in

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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)
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