Gerard Bancker

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

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

de Peyster family tree

Johannes de Peyster, Sr. (c. 1600–c. 1685)
- Abraham de Peyster (1657–1728), Mayor of New York City
  - Catherine de Peyster, married Philip Van Cortlandt, son of Stephanus Van Cortlandt
    - Pierre Van Cortlandt (1721–1814)
  - Abraham de Peyster (1696–1767), Treasurer of the Province of New York, married Margaret Van Cortlandt, daughter of Jacobus Van Cortlandt
    - James Abraham de Peyster (1726–1799)
      - Capt. Abraham de Peyster (1753–1798), married Catherine Livingston, granddaughter of Philip Livingston
      - Frederick de Peyster (1758–1834)
        Frederic de Peyster (1796–1882), lawyer
        John Watts de Peyster (1821–1907), military officer, married Estelle Livingston
        John Watts de Peyster, Jr. (1841–1873), Union Army officer
        
        Johnston de Peyster (1846–1903), New York State Assembly member
  - Pierre Guillaume de Peyster (b. 1707), married Cornelia Schuyler
    - Arent DePeyster (1736–1822), British military officer
    - Pierre Guillaume de Peyster (1745–1807)
      - William Sheriff de Peyster, married Mary Roosevelt, niece of Nicholas Roosevelt
      - Cornelia de Peyster, married Jacob R. Van Rensselaer
- Johannes de Peyster (1666–1719), Mayor of New York City, married Anna Bancker, sister of Albany mayor Evert Bancker
  - Maria de Peyster, married Gerard Bancker
    - Gerard Bancker (1740–1799), surveyor and politician
  - William de Peyster, married Margaret Roosevelt
    - William de Peyster
      - Elizabeth de Peyster, married Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827), painter
        Franklin Peale (1795–1870), Philadelphia Mint officer
        
        Titian Peale (1799–1885), naturalist
  - Catharina de Peyster, married Hendrick Rutgers (1712–1779)
    - Henry Rutgers (1745–1830), Revolutionary War hero, namesake of Rutgers University
- Elizabeth de Peyster, married New Jersey provincial Governor John Hamilton
- Maria de Peyster, married New York City Mayor David Provost

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 233397000 LCCN: n50036565 BNF: cb14967008z (data)

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