Gerard Bancker

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Gerard Bancker (sometimes Latin Gerardus, or colloquial Dutch Gerrit) (14 February 1740, Albany, New York – 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 in 1731.

In 1774, as city surveyor, he made a map of St. George's Ferry on Nassau Island.^[1]

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.^[2]

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Political offices
Preceded by Peter Van Brugh Livingston	New York State Treasurer 1778–1798	Succeeded by Robert McClellan

v t e New York State Treasurers

Livingston Bancker McClellan A G Lansing Thomas A G Lansing Thomas Platt Dox Knower Keyser Barstow Keyser Barstow Haight Farrington Enos Farrington Hunt Cook Welch Spaulding Clark Vanderpoel Dorsheimer Lewis Schuyler Howland Bristol Raines A Lansing* Raines Ross Mackin Wendell Maxwell Fitzgerald Danforth Colvin Jaeckel Wickser Wallenmeier Hauser Dunn Kennedy Batten* Call Wells Marshall Shuler Pounds

*denotes acting treasurer

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Name	Bancker, Gerard
Alternative names
Short description	American politician
Date of birth	14 February 1740
Place of birth
Date of death	1799
Place of death

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