Johnny Appleseed will leave an estate of over twelve hundred acres (four hundred and ninety hectares) of valuable nurseries to his sister.

He also owns four plots in Allen County, Indiana, including a nursery in Milan Township with fifteen thousand trees, and two plots in Mount Vernon, Ohio.

He bought the southwest quarter (one hundred and sixty acres) of section 26, Mohican Township, Ashland County, Ohio, but he did not record the deed and lost the property.

The financial panic of 1837 had taken a toll on his estate.

Trees bring only two or three cents each, as opposed to the "fippenny bit" (about six and a quarter cents) that he usually got.

Some of his land will be sold for taxes following his death, and litigation will use up much of the rest.

Different dates are listed for his death.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine of November 1871 was apparently incorrect in saying that he died in mid 1847, though this is taken by many as the primary source of information about John Chapman.

Multiple Indiana newspapers reported his death date as March 18, 1845.

The Goshen Democrat publishes a death notice for him in its March 27, 1845, edition, citing the day of death as March 18 of this year.