 William and Deborah received a gift of the Bellevue estate from his father Charles Wharton in 1834, the year that her father died.It was a farm near the Cliffs estate that she had grown up to love.The Whartons and their children spent many happy summers at Bellevue, where they enjoyed the vegetable gardens, horse-drawn carriage trips and the cool of the nearby Schuylkill River.