The Official Site of the CHAGUARAMAS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies

About 1785, Chaguaramas saw the first of the visitors under a determine recognized as the Cedula of Population. This appraise, declared in 1783, led to thousands of French Caribbean pioneers and their slaves coming to settle in Trinidad under an contract prepared among King Carlos IV of Spain and a French planter from Grenada, Philippe-Rose Roume de St Laurent. It was the commencement of the setting up of estates, and one of the next planters who were Monsieur Teteron and his wife, Madame Teteron, who bestowed her name to the estate and settlement of Teteron.