Hudde

secured a patent for a farm at Harlem, which had
originally belonged to Hendrick de Forest. Im-
mediately after the date of this grant, Hudde
sailed for Amsterdam, where, in January 1639,
he married Geertruy Bornstra, the widow of
Hendrick de Forest Having engaged farm
laborers to establish a tobacco plantation, Hudde
and his bride soon after returned to New Nether-
land, but upon their arrival at Manhattan, in
July 1639, found that their farm had been pub-
licly sold to satisfy a claim of Johannes de la
Montagne. Hudde and his wife then took up
their residence in New Amsterdam.

On June 26, 1642, Hudde was commissioned
surveyor. Two years later he was sent to the
Delaware River, where he succeeded Jan Jansen
van Hpendam as commissary of Fort Nassau.
He proved himself an active and efficient officer
and for that reason was reappointed by Stuy-
vesant in 1647. He retained his commission un-
til 1652, when, his wife having died, he returned
with his one surviving son to New Amsterdam.
In May 1654 he was again on the Delaware,
where he made several maps for the Swedish
commander Rising, whom he promised to serve
as faithfully as he had served his former master.
Having been accused of intentions to desert, he
was examined on Oct. 24 and found guilty, but
he was released at Jan Becker's intercession. On
Dec, 17, 1654, for lack of other employment, he
was provisionally permitted to exercise his for-
mer profession of surveyor at New Amsterdam.
In 1655 he was employed as secretary and sur-
veyor on the Delaware and made a member of
the council of the vice-director. Two years later
he asked to be discharged from the company's
service and was provisionally, in the same ca-
pacity and at the same salary, engaged by Jacob
Alrichs, the newly appointed director of the
colony of New Amstel. In a letter to Stuyvesant,
dated Aug. 10,1657, the latter alludes to Hudde's
having married again, while three days later he
wrote slightingly of his attainments as a sur-
veyor. In May 1660, Hudde made plans to go
to Maryland, to become a brewer. Before he
could do so, however, he had the misfortune of
being robbed by the Indians, so that he found
himself with his wife and child in great poverty.
Having on June 5, 1660, petitioned Stuyvesant
to be employed in some capacity on the South
River, he was the same day appointed clerk and
reader at Fort Altona, for the assistance of Vice-
Director Willem Beeckman. He was discharged
in October and went with his family to Apo-
quenauringh, where he died of a violent fever,
after having served the company and the city of

Hudson

Amsterdam for a period of thirty-four years,
"with little pro6t to himself."

[The chief source of information about Andries
Hudde is the collection of colonial manuscripts in the
N. Y. State Lib., particularly the Delaware papers,
many of which appear in translation in Docs. Relating
to the Hist, of the Dutch and Swedish Settlements on
the Delaware River (1877), ed. by Berthold Fernow.
A sketch of Hudde's life is given in I. N. P. Stokes, The
Iconography of Manhattan Island, vol. II (1916) ; and
another, briefer account is included in Mrs. Robert W.
de Forest's A Walloon Family in America (2 vols.,
1914). See also Amandus Johnson, The Swedish Set-
tlements on the Delaware (2 vols., 1911) ;£. B. O'Cal-
laghan, Hist, of New Netherland (2 vols., 1846-48);
J. R. Brodhead, Hist, of the State of N. Y., vol. I
(i853).] AJ.F.v-L.

HUDSON, CHARLES (Nov. 14, 1795-May
4, 1881), clergyman, journalist, and author, a
descendant of Daniel Hudson, founder of the
family in America, who emigrated from England
to New England about 1639, was the son of Ste-
phen and Louisa (Williams) Hudson, and the
grandson of Larkin and Anna (Warren) Wil-
liams. His father entered the service of the Colo-
nies at the age of sixteen, and was imprisoned
in Philadelphia as the result of the capture of a
privateer that had done considerable damage to
British shipping on the high seas and along
foreign shores. Charles Hudson was born in
Marlboro, Mass., and was educated for the min-
istry. He was ordained in 1821, and from 1824
to 1842 had pastoral charge of the First Uni-
versalist Parish, Westminster, Mass. He was
involved in the "Restorationist" controversy
and was one of those who seceded from the Uni-
versalist fellowship and set up a new denomina-
tional organization known as the Massachusetts
Society of Universal Restorationists. While still
in the active ministry he began a diversified
career in public affairs, politics, and journalism,
holding an astonishing number of offices, both
elective and appointive. He served as a mem-
ber of the Massachusetts House of Representa-
tives from 1828 to 1833, °ftne state Senate from
1833 to 1839, of the Executive Council from 1839
to 1841, and as a Whig member of Congress from
1841 to 1849. While in the Massachusetts legis-
lature he contributed much to the organization
of the state's railroad system. Upon his retire-
ment from legislative work he was appointed
naval officer of the port of Boston, which po-
sition he held from 1849 to 1853; he was a mem-
ber of the state board of education; and he was
also United States assessor of internal revenue
at Boston from 1864 to 1868. Some of these of-
fices were filled by him while he was taking active
part in the political discussions of the day as
editor of the Boston Daily Atlas, a leading Whig
newspaper.
In 1849 he removed to Lexington, residing

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