Gerard Bancker (326)

Gerard Bancker (1740–18 January 1799) was a merchant, surveyor, treasurer, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1772. From New York, by 1769 Gerard Bancker ran a successful mercantile business with his cousin, supplying provisions for the British Army. Bancker also worked as a surveyor for New York City throughout the 60s and 70s. Upon the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the Banckers’ business activities ceased. Gerard Bancker made some surveys of New Jersey before becoming Treasurer of New York Colony, and then New York State (1778-1798), Director of the Bank of New York (1792), and Governor of King’s College.