Jorge L. Chinea in his book Los inmigrantes de las Indias Occidentales en Puerto Rico states that in 1856 the St. Thomas merchant firm of Juan Bautista Anduze & Sons requested permission to bring five hundred Spanish men and women from the Canary Islands to work at its plantations in Vieques and Naguabo.  States Chinea that of the first shipment of one hundred sixty six slaves, ninety five were allocated to his Hacienda Quebrada Palma in Naguabo and the rest were taken to Vieques. Jean Baptiste "Juan Bautista" Anduze (1782-1856) was a French immigrant from Saint-Michel-de-Lanes, Aude, Languedoc, France, who lived and died in St. Thomas then Danish West Indies.  His son Juan Bautista Anduze Bornet (1827-1887) was born in Saint Thomas and moved to Cozumel, Mexico some time between 1848 and 1850 where he was involved in the slave trade until his death 1887.

Records show that Mathieu (Mateo) Lucchetti Piccioni (1825-1905), born in Rogliano, Corsica to Dominque Lucchetti Terami (1790-1875) and Catherine Piccioni Blasini (1792-1882) emigratedthe Danish island of St. Thomas ca. 1848. In St. Thomas he resided with his uncle Vincent Piccioni who between 1846 and 1852 had inherited from his uncle Francois Piccioni several properties and a successful mercantile and import-export business.  Among the properties owned by Vincent was an estate called Frederiksberg which included a military tower built in 1688 that had passed on to private hands since 1818.  Vincent moved to Corsica in 1856 but returned to St. Thomas in 1859 and at the time of his return, the tower at Frederiksberg had deteriorated substantially. Vincent took upon himself its restoration as evidenced by a plaque he placed on the tower that reads "Tour de Barbe-Bleue Restauree par V Piccioni 1859".  Today the property is a resort called Blue Beard's Castle Resort.  

Mateo continued his uncle’s business in St. Thomas under the name M. Luchetti & Co., until 1877 when records show he lived in Puerto Rico. It is unclear when Mateo acquired Hacienda Quebrada Palma in Naguabo which most likely derived its name from the brook running through its lands called Quebrada Palma, but it is reasonable to believe that during the time both lived in St. Thomas, Juan Bautista Anduze Bornet was acquainted with Mateo Luchetti and sold him the hacienda in Puerto Rico sometime before his death in 1887.

In July 1905, while traveling to his hacienda, Mateo died unexpectedly by drowning when his horse carriage was overthrown by the waters of the Fajardo River.  Mateo was single, never married and had no children.  Upon his death, the court appointed Hernand Henry Behn legal administrator of the estate and on December 1905 declared as his sole and only heirs seven og his nephews and nieces, some of them not of legal age and most of them living in France and/or Corsica.

• Emmanuel Jacob Lucchetti Simmons (1883- ) son of Eugenie Luchetti Piccioni (1826-1887)

• Madeleine Lucchetti Mendes (1891-1960) daughter of Sosthenes Luchetti Piccioni (1837-1899) 

• Catherine, Dominique & Therese Lucchetti Roux and Antoine Lucchetti Boileaux children of Antoine Luchetti Piccioni (1835-1888)

• Camille (Camilo) Piccioni Lucchetti (1859-1932) son of Marie Madeleine Luchetti Piccioni (1829-1874)

Hernand H. Behn (1880-1933) and his brother Sosthenes Behn (1884-1957) were born in the Danish territory of St. Thomas to Richard William Behn (1840-1889), a German immigrant born in Venezuela and resident of St. Thomas and Louise (Luisa) Mendes-Monsanto Lopes (1854-1927) born in St. Thomas of French descent.  In August 1890, a year after Richard's death, Luisa or Madame Lucchetti as she was later known, married Mateo's brother Sosthenes Lucchetti Piccioni, a good family friend and young Sosthenes Godfather.  At the time of Mateo's death, Hernand was living in Puerto Rico and working as Traffic Manager of the American Railroad Company of PR.  Shortly thereafter, Sosthenes moved to Puerto Rico from New York and together they took over Mateo's businesses.  The brothers soon expanded their uncle's sugarcane growing and processing business and divested into other ventures including Behn Brothers, a company engaged in the sugar brokering business. 

Like most of the trapiches of the area, Quebrada Palma was destroyed by Hurricane San Ciriaco of 1899, the year of its last grinding season. From then on its sugarcane was processed at Central Columbia.  Its smoke stack is located today inside the loop at the exit of PR-53 to PR-953 which is the Expressway Naguabo exit.  It seems the design of this interchange was done taking into consideration the smoke stack, thus avoiding its demolition.

 Unrelated to the sugar business, in 1898 Mateo sold  Fredericksburg in St. Thomas and acquired some 148 cuerdas in San Juan from José Serra Gonzalez.  Hernand and Sosthenes Behn acquired these lands from Mateo's heirs and developed them into what is known today as the Condado area of San Juan.  They commissioned the design of Madame Lucchetti's residence to Antonin Nechodoma where today is the Condado Plaza Hilton Hotel, and in 1910 they finished construction of the bridge today known as "Puente Dos Hermanos" to provide easy access from Condado to the Puerta de Tierra sector of Old San Juan.  The bridge was sold to the San Juan Municipal Government in September 1910.  

Also unrelated to the sugar business but an interesting part of history, in 1897 the Spanish Colonial Government of Puerto Rico gave several twenty year concessions to set up three local monopolies to offer telephone service; (1) to Sociedad Anonima de Redes Telefonicas de San Juan owned by Rafael Fabian and Antonio Ahumada; (2) to Compañia Anónima de Redes Telefonicas de Ponce owned by Alfredo Casals Agaña and by 1900 acquired by Rafael Fabian and (3) to Rafael Fabian in Mayagüez. 

On July 13, 1905 the US Government authorized Pedro Juan Rosaly to establish and operate telephone service on the South coast which authorization was soon transferred to the South Porto Rico Telephone Company (SPRTC) who acquired absolute control of the Compañia Anónima de Redes Telefónica de Ponce and the private telephone systems of the Aguirre and Guanica sugar mills.  On August 23, 1906 the US Government authorized Sosthenes Behn to establish and operate telephone service on the north coast, which authorization was soon transferred to the Porto Rico General Telephone Company.  Immediately thereafter, the PRGTC acquired the telephone companies operating in San Juan and Mayagüez by virtue of the franchises granted by the Spanish Colonial Government.  

In 1913 the merger of the PRGTC with the SPRTC resulted in a new Delaware corporation called the Porto Rico Telephone Co. headed by Sosthenes Behn.  In 1920 Sosthenes Behn established the International Telephone & Telegraph Company (IT&T) of which the Porto Rico Telephone Co. became part of and quickly grew into a multinational company, which not the mogul it once was, today still exists.

Mateo was first cousin of Mateo Luchetti Tristani (1848-1917) who in 1904 was part of the Compagnie des Sucreries de Porto Rico that acquired Central Fortuna.