In 1633 A.D., the WIC of the United Nederlandt (Netherlands) Company built this fortified trading house, of the Roman fortification design, at the south bank of the little river, a tributary river of the Versche or Fresh River, now known as Hartford on the Connecticut River in the State of Connecticut in the United States of America of the United Nations. The Roman fort design was not well planned, as coordinated out of Fort Oranije (which had taken the place of the earlier 1614 A.D. Fort Nassau) and Fort Amsterdam, to be the Northeast fortification and trading center of the WIC. Peter Minuit, who was then Governor of the Nieuw Nederlandt (New Netherlands), a Walloon French-speaking from what is now present day Wallonia in Belgium, did not follow the line of building fortifications as to Roman design, possibly out of haste and lack of resources, or poor leadership, or a combination of the both.

This was Fort Hoop (Fort Hope), in Suckiaug (Black Earth Soil), of the Algic Speaking Peoples, commonly known as the Mahicans, Mohicans, Lenape, Delaware, Schagticoke, Western Niantic, Eastern Niantic, Narragansett, Wampanoag, Nipmuc, Poospetuck, Shinnecock, Montauk, Manissee, Micmac, Passamoquoddy, Penobscot, Abenaki, Wabanaki, Wappinger, Lenni Lenape, Pawcatuck, Eastern Pequot, Western Pequot, Mashantucket, Pequot, Mohegan, Sequin, Tunxis, Pyquag.