Gerard Bancker

Gerard Bancker

Gerard Bancker (sometimes in its Dutch form Gerardus Bancker) (1740 - 1799) was an American surveyor and politician.

Life

In 1774, as city surveyor, he made a map of St. George's Ferry on Nassau Island. [ [http://www.ushistoricalarchive.com/statemaps/ny/2.html The map, at U.S. Historical Archive] ]

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. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D06EFD61638E433A25751C0A9629C94699ED7CF The sale, in NYT on April 2, 1898] ]

Notes

ources

* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html Political Graveyard]
* [http://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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