Adrianus Bancker

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark

• Apprenticed about 1718 to Henricus Boelen in New York City NY ¹

• Caster, c 1730
Boston Museum of Fine Arts ⁸
h: 5 5/8"
d: 1 7/8" (base)
wt: 5 oz, 6 dwt
Made for Philip Schuyler, second husband of Sarah Folman, mother of Nicholas Roosevelt. Engraved with family crest. Unmarked, but attribution based on nearly identical set of three marked casters in the Museum of the City of New York.

• Made freeman of New York City NY, 1731. ²¹

• Advertised in the New York Journal (New York City NY), 23 Oct 1766, as a gold- and silversmith, noting address on Bridge Street near Exchange. ⁴

Adrianus married Gertrude Elizabeth Van Taerling on 30 Jan 1729 in Albany NY. (Gertrude Elizabeth Van Taerling was born on 17 Nov 1709 in New York City NY.)