William Apess is among a number of Native intellectuals from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to whom scholars have paid increasing attention over the past decade and more. Apess was raised in the crucible of Native New England, had been abused in various ways in it, and spent his adulthood giving voice to those who experienced the oppression of what world in silent invisibility. He helped lead one of the most important Native revolts of the nineteenth century at Mashpee in Massachusetts and created an unprecedented public persona for himself. Following the publication of his books in his mid thirties, Apess departed New England for New York City. The purpose of this article, though, is not so much to add to what the author of this article knows of Apess's texts, but to examine the circumstances surrounding his death in 1839, not in New England, but in New York City. (Contains 8 notes.)