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He also bought up several neighboring farms. Unscrupulous neighbors took advantage of the woman's eccentricity, "helping themselves to anything they wanted on the neglected farms of the estate", in Shelton's words. Following Eliza's death, her estate was involved in a series of lawsuits revolving around her will. Jumel estate be partitioned. By 1868, the mansion was occupied by Nelson Chase, the family of Nelson's son William Inglis Chase, and the family of Nelson's daughter Eliza Jumel Péry. He moved into the mansion with his wife, the socialite Eliza Bowen Jumel, and their adopted daughter, Mary Bowen. Mary Bowen refused to stay in the mansion by herself because of a belief that the house was haunted by the ghosts of soldiers. The marriage, and Burr's stay in the house, was short. Eliza filed for divorce in 1834, which was granted in 1836, Cost of Opening a Billiards Parlor shortly before Burr's death. Burr left the mansion for seven months after Eliza filed for divorce, then returned for another five weeks. In 1944, the Astors filed plans for a commercial property to replace the southern section of the house.

The Chase family lived in the house for about two decades after Eliza died. Chase family had moved into the mansion again by 1848, five years after Mary Chase died. Stephen died in 1832 after being injured in a carriage accident. At some point in the late 19th century, either right before or not long after Eliza Jumel's death, a flagstone carriage drive was added in front of the mansion. At the northeast end, to the right of the main hallway, is a small arch leading to the main stairway. A new kitchen was built at the northeast corner of the house. Records indicate that an ice house was built next to the mansion after the Jumels returned from France. The family sometimes stayed in their other houses in Lower Manhattan and France. The Jumels went to France the same year because they had failed to gain enough social standing. In the first few years of the museum's operation, the WHA hosted two events at the house annually; by the early 1910s, the museum attracted over 30,000 visitors per year. July 3 of that year.

The city bought the house that July for $235,000. The 1900 United States census showed that seven members of the Earle household lived in the house. In 1898, a decade after the nearby Hamilton Grange had been relocated, there were unsuccessful proposals to move Earle Cliff. Eliza Jumel's duplicity or whether the move was intended to prevent Stephen's creditors from taking over the mansion. An unidentified purchaser bought the mansion and 30 neighboring lots for $40,000, but the sale was delayed after protests from several people alleging to be Stephen Jumel's heirs. Numerous pieces of furniture, purported to be from Eliza Jumel's collection, were auctioned off in early 1890, though the family of Nelson Chase claimed that they still owned the Jumel furniture. The family reproduced the original wallpaper and bought as much furniture as they could. Eliza bought additional furniture for the mansion. The same year, Stephen and Eliza placed the mansion in trust. The same year, ownership of the mansion was transferred to Mary. One contemporary writer said the Jumel Mansion was "doomed to speedy transformation from an elegant country-seat to an elegant suburban portion of the town" because of Manhattan's growing urbanization. The 1830 United States census recorded eleven people in the Jumel household who lived in the mansion.

1855 statewide census recorded 14 people in the Jumel household. The 1810 United States census shows that seven people lived in the Jumel household, but the Jumels probably split their time between the uptown mansion and their Lower Manhattan house. Manhattan Department of Parks (later the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, or NYC Parks) that September to map out the Jumel Mansion's site. At the time, the house was one of three remaining structures in Manhattan associated with George Washington, the other two being Fraunces Tavern and St. Paul's Chapel. In 1881, The New York Times wrote that "it is a treat to see a house occasionally that is a little different from its neighbors" and that the Morris-Jumel Mansion was one such structure. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the Morris-Jumel Mansion was still decorated with a variety of objects used by the Morrises, Washington, the Jumels, and Burr. The new owners were Ferdinand Pinney Earle, whose mother's family were related to the Morrises, and his wife, Lillie J. Earle.