Andries Hudde

Andries Hudde (1608–1663) was a landowner and colonial official of New Netherland.

Born in Kampen, Overijssel in the Netherlands in 1608 to Hendrick Hudde (himself son of the burgomaster Rutger Hudde) and Aeltje Schinckels, Hudde married in 1639 and again in 1657, and died in Appoquinimink in Delaware in 1663 while on the way to Maryland to open a brewery. His main personal residence in Manhattan was at the location that is today approximately 42 Broadway (Breede weg, already a prominent road).

Arriving in the New World in 1629, Hudde purchased a deed for land in Flatlands and Flatbush with Wolphert Gerretse in 1636, and he was the first person to be granted a legal land conveyance in the colony in 1638 for the Muscoota farm in Harlem through his fiance Gertrude Bornstra, the widow of Hendrick de Forest (son of Jessé de Forest), for which he returned to the Netherlands in 1638-39 to marry her, though in their brief absence the Harlem land was actually acquired by Johannes de la Montagne (brother-in-law to de Forest) through a lawsuit and court sale, and was renamed Vredendael farm.

Hudde was appointed to the New Netherland Council under Wouter van Twiller in 1633 and 1636, served as the first Surveyor General of the colony in 1642-1647 (and again in 1654), in a commercial capacity served as first commissary of wares, in a religious capacity served as a voorleser, and took a military role as commissary of Fort Nassau on the Delaware River that challenged New Sweden's Johan Björnsson Printz in 1645.

Bibliography

• Dictionary of American Biography