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Which position did Andries Hudde hold after Oct 1658?
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 Wouter van Twiller from 1633-1637 , served as the first Surveyor General of the colony in 1642-1647 ( he was the first surveyor in the colony at all after Kryn Fredericksz , the builder of Fort Amsterdam ) , and in a commercial capacity served as first commissary of wares . 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 ) . 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 Reynierss child . A prominent landowner , Hudde purchased a deed for land in Flatlands and Flatbush with Wolphert Gerretse in 1636 , where the Achtervelt ( back fields ) farm was established , and he was the first person to be granted a legal land conveyance in the colony in 1638 for the Muscoota farm ( by modern Morningside Park in Harlem ) through his fiancée Gertrude Bornstra , the widow of Hendrick de Forest ( son of Jessé de Forest ) . He briefly returned to the Netherlands in 1638-39 to marry her , though in their 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 . Delaware Valley and later life . Hudde took a military role as commissary of Fort Nassau on the Delaware River that challenged New Swedens Johan Björnsson Printz in 1644 or 1645 . Huddes 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 Peter Stuyvesants expeditionary force against the Swedes in 1655 ( in the context of the European Second Northern War ) , Hudde returned to the Delaware Valley , and held a number of offices in the newly-annexed New Amstel colony . He was remarried there in 1657 to a woman recorded only as Geertie . 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 Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer , as the Prologue , Scene IV , features the confrontation between Hudde and New Sweden governor Johan Björnsson Printz . Over three hundred years after the granting of the Hudde and Gerritse patent in southern Brooklyn , a lawsuit as late as 1939 ruled on the rights of the heirs of Elbert Elbertson , who had acquired it after them , to the land that became Marine Park . 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 Huddes fanciful life as a pirate is mentioned by childrens book author Eric Kimmel as an inspiration for some of his writing . 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 . External links . - New Netherland Council Dutch Colonial Patents and Deeds - New York State Archives