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.

He was the grandson of Johannes de Peyster (1666–1719), the 23rd Mayor of New York City between 1698 and 1699,[1] and great-grandson of Johannes de Peyster, Sr., the Huguenot first settler of the De Peyster family in North America.

[2][3] Bancker was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1772,[4] and in 1774, as city surveyor, he made a map of St. George's Ferry on Nassau Island.

He collected a large number of broadsides from the revolutionary era which were sold at auction in 1898 in Philadelphia.

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