Gerard Bancker
Gerard Bancker (sometimes Latin Gerardus, or colloquial Dutch Gerrit) (14 February 1740 in Albany, New York – January 1799) was an American surveyor and politician.
Also recorded as Gerard Banker · Gerardus
Gerard Bancker
- Born
- 1740 · Albany.
- Died
- 1799 · Bancker.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- art collector · cartographer · politician · surveying engineer
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• Illustration — Coat of Arms of Gerard Bancker 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, and great-grandson of Johannes de Peyster, Sr., the Huguenot first settler of the De Peyster family in North America. Bancker was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1772, and in 1774, as city surveyor, 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 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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Gerard Bancker (14 February 1740 – 1799) was a “Vermessungsingenieur” and politician. The birth of Gerard Bancker is recorded on 14 February 1740 in Albany, New York, and the death in 1799 in New York, NY.
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Gerard Bancker is recorded as art collector, cartographer, politician and surveying engineer.
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1740
Gerard Bancker born at Albany.
1799
Gerard Bancker died at Bancker.
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Albany.
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Gerard Bancker [banckgerar026178], Electronic Enlightenment Biographical Dictionary, 2025
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- 1.Wilson, James Grant (ed.) The memorial history of the City of New-York, Vol. II, p. 54 (1892)
- 2.Allaben, Frank. John Watts de Peyster, Volume 1, p. 18-19 (1908)
- 3.Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, p. 395-96 (1853)
- 4.APS Member History.
- 5.The map, at U.S. Historical Archive.
- 6.The sale, in NYT on April 2, 1898
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
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