Thomas Grafton Addison sold about half of Bellevue by 1826, and at his death the remainder was transferred to local planter Zacariah Berry, Sr. to pay debts. Zacariah died in 1845, and deeded Bellevue to his grandsons, Washington Berry Jr. and Zacariah Berry, Jr. Their father (and Zacariah Sr.'s son), Washington Berry, Sr., managed Bellevue as a farm and operated a fisher from the site. When Washington Berry, Sr., died in 1856, he will several plantations to his two sons provided they divested themselves of Bellevue to their five sisters.