He was born at Kampen, in the province of Overyssel, Netherlands, but he was doubtless connected with the Hudde family of Amsterdam. His father, Hendrick Hudde, died in the Dutch East Indies while Andries was still under age; his mother, Aeltje Schinckels, resided in 1639 at Amsterdam.
In 1629 Andries Hudde emigrated to New Netherland and in 1632 he held the office of commissary of stores. He was afterward a member of Wouter van Twiller's council and also acted as colonial secretary. In 1636 he and Wolphert Gerritsen van Couwenhoven obtained an Indian deed for a tract of land of about 3, 600 acres on Long Island, and two years later Hudde secured a patent for a farm at Harlem, which had originally belonged to Hendrick de Forest. Immediately after the date of this grant, Hudde sailed for Amsterdam, where he married. Having engaged farm laborers to establish a tobacco plantation, Hudde and his bride soon after returned to New Netherland, but upon their arrival at Manhattan, in July 1639, found that their farm had been publicly 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 Ilpendam as commissary of Fort Nassau. He proved himself an active and efficient officer and for that reason was reappointed by Stuyvesant in 1647. He retained his commission until 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 October 24 and found guilty, but he was released at Jan Becker's intercession. On December 17, 1654, for lack of other employment, he was provisionally permitted to exercise his former profession of surveyor at New Amsterdam. In 1655 he was employed as secretary and surveyor 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 capacity and at the same salary, engaged by Jacob Alrichs, the newly appointed director of the colony of New Amstel.
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 Apoquenamingh, where he died of a violent fever, after having served the company and the city of Amsterdam for a period of thirty-four years, "with little profit to himself. "
In January 1639, he married Geertruy Bornstra, the widow of Hendrick de Forest. He was remarried in 1657 to a woman recorded only as "Geertie".
