Gerard Bancker
{{Short description|American surveyor and politician}}
Gerard Bancker (sometimes Latin Gerardus, or colloquial Dutch Gerrit) (14 February 1740 in Albany, New York – January 1799) was an American surveyor and politician.
Life
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Bancker was the son of Gerard Bancker Sr. and Maria de Peyster, who had married in New York City in 1731. He was the grandson of Johannes de Peyster (1666–1719), the 23rd Mayor of New York City between 1698 and 1699,Wilson, James Grant (ed.) [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZCIWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA54 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. [https://books.google.com/books?id=1bgtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA18 John Watts de Peyster, Volume 1], p. 18-19 (1908)[https://books.google.com/books?id=RCU1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA395 Manual of the corporation of the city of New York], p. 395-96 (1853)
Bancker was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1772,{{Cite web|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Gerard+Bancker&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|title=APS Member History}} and in 1774, as city surveyor, he made a map of St. George's Ferry on Nassau Island.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ushistoricalarchive.com/statemaps/ny/2.html |title=The map, at U.S. Historical Archive |access-date=2008-07-02 |archive-date=2008-07-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708230159/http://www.ushistoricalarchive.com/statemaps/ny/2.html |url-status=dead }}
He was Deputy Treasurer from 1776 to 1778, and New York State Treasurer from 1778 to 1798.
He collected a large number of broadsides from the revolutionary era which were sold at auction in 1898 in Philadelphia.[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1898/04/02/102109831.pdf The sale, in NYT on April 2, 1898]
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Sources
- [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html Political Graveyard]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA35 The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 35; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) (Google Books)]
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Category:New York state treasurers
Category:Politicians from New York City
Category:American art collectors
Category:Surveyors from the Thirteen Colonies
Category:American cartographers
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