Andries Hudde
Andries Hudde (1608–1663) was a landowner and colonial official of New Netherland.
Early life and New Amsterdam
Andries Hudde was born in Kampen, Overijssel in the Netherlands in 1608 to Hendrick Hudde (himself son of the local burgomaster Rutger Hudde) and Aeltje Schinckels.
Arriving in the New World in 1629, Hudde was appointed to the New Netherland Council under
His main personal residence in Manhattan was at Lot 11, Block C, on the Castello Plan drawn by his successor as Surveyor-General Jacques Cortelyou (this is today approximately 42 Broadway - Breede weg, which was already a prominent road).[3]
Hudde was the subject of slanderous testimony in a lawsuit of Everardus Bogardus against Anthony Janszoon van Salee, that he was possibly the biological father of Grietse Reyniers's child.[4] In 1636, he and another commissary are recorded as starting (and losing) a physical fight with a trumpeter who interrupted a party for David Pietersz. de Vries, an incident that inspired Washington Irving's character of Anthony Van Corlaer.
A prominent landowner, Hudde purchased a deed for land in
Delaware Valley and later life
Hudde took a military role as commissary of Fort Nassau on the Delaware River that challenged New Sweden's Johan Björnsson Printz in 1644 or 1645,[11][12] and wrote a report on conditions of the Swedes on the Delaware which is preserved.[13]
Hudde's first wife, Gertrude Bornstra, died in 1652. In this year, he also returned to New Amsterdam, where he stayed till 1655. While there in 1654, he was reappointed as Surveyor General and filed an application to serve as a voorleser (though it is unclear if he ever served in that religious education capacity).
After the total victory by Director-General
Hudde died in Appoquinimink in modern Delaware in 1663 while on the way to Maryland to open a brewery.
Legacy
Hudde was a character in the 1912 Philadelphia historical pageant directed by
Hudde Junior High School was built in 1951 in a neighborhood that was part of the southern Brooklyn patent. An urban legend or misunderstanding formerly popular among students of Hudde's fanciful life as a pirate is mentioned by children's book author Eric Kimmel as an inspiration for some of his writing.[17][18] This is untrue, although fellow Brooklyn landowner Anthony Janszoon van Salee was the son of a famous pirate. The school is adjacent to Andries Playground.[19]
References
- ISBN 9780199729104.
- ^ "Historical Society of the New York Courts | New York Legal History / Colonial New York Under Dutch Rule: 1609-1664; 1673-1674". www.nycourts.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
- ISBN 9785871799505.
- ISBN 9781570271588.
- ISBN 9781429022224.
- ^ "Digital Collections : Text : Patent of Andries Hudde and Wolphert Gerritsen van Couwenhoven for a tract of land on Long Island [NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0014]". digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
- ^ "Digital Collections | New York State Archives". digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
- ISBN 9780608321646.
- ^ Society, American Scenic and Historic Preservation (1916-01-01). Annual Report. J.B. Lyon Company. p. 545.
- ^ Pirsson, John W. (1889-01-01). The Dutch Grants, Harlem Patents and Tidal Creeks: The Law Applicable to Those Subjects Examined and Stated. L. K. Strouse. p. 17.
- OCLC 964352538.
- ^ Bryant, William Cullen; Gay, Sydney Howard (1888). A Popular History of the United States, from the First Discovery of the Western Hemisphere by the Northmen, to the End of the Civil War: Preceded by a Sketch of the Prehistoric Period and the Age of the Mound Builders. C. Scribner's Sons. pp. 472-475.
- ^ "Digital Collections : Text : Report of the proceedings of Johannes Prints by Andries Hudde [NYSA_A1878-78_V18_0001]". digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
- ^ Sprogle, Howard O. (1887-01-01). The Philadelphia Police, Past and Present. Philadelphia, Pa. p. 5.
- ^ Williams, Francis Howard (1912). The Words of the Pageant: Philadelphia, October 7-12, 1912. Historical Pageant Committee. p. 14.
- ^ "Matter of City of New York, 258 App. Div. 191 | Casetext". casetext.com. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ^ "Read About Eric | Eric A. Kimmel". Archived from the original on 2019-05-31. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
- ^ "Eric A. Kimmel | Authors | Macmillan". US Macmillan. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
- ^ "Andries Playground : NYC Parks". www.nycgovparks.org. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
External links
- New Netherland Council Dutch Colonial Patents and Deeds - New York State Archives