Adrian Bancker

Bancker was the son of Evert Bancker, third mayor of Albany, New York, and baptized on October 10, 1703 in Albany.

He was apprenticed to Henricus Boelen circa 1718 and made a freeman in 1731.

In January of either 1728 or 1729 he married Gertrude Elizabeth Van Taerling, the daughter of Jan van Taerling, a former governor of Curaçao.

[1] He was a New York City alderman during the 1730s and 40s, a deacon in the Dutch Church, Commissioner of Fortifications in New York in 1755 and 1756, and from 1733 to 1766 was collector of the South Ward.

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