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John Smith,
an emancipated convict and an early entrepreneur in the Hunter Valley
built this house on his Wallis Plains (now
Maitland) farm Hazlewood. Nearby were Smith's Flour Mill
and
Caroline Chisholm Cottage (formerly Smith's Row).
(Heritage Branch)
Henry Adams
became a publican about 1840 and was
landlord in the premises of the first Black Horse Inn in Newcastle
Street, East Maitland not far from the Wallis Creek Bridge in the early 1840's.
New premises were built in the mid 1840's also in Newcastle Street, and
Henry Adams moved into these.
William Eckford
took out a license for the
Prince Albert Inn in the original premises of
the Black Horse Inn. Henry Adams continued the license for the
Black Horse Inn in the new premises.
In 1847 he was censured by a jury at an
inquest in to the death of Edward Pailing who was
found dead in the stable of the Inn. Pailing
was a blacksmith who had been employed for ten years
by Rebecca Norris and her husband. However on the
day he died, Pailing was employed drawing water for
Adams, as John Hoare the cook at the Black Horse
Inn was ill. Pailing had been drinking at the Inn
since midday and in Henry Adam's absence Pailing had been
served by Henry's eldest daughter Naomi *. Naomi later
testified at the inquest that Pailing was
intoxicated and had fallen from his stool in the tap
room. By the time Henry Adams returned home, Edward
Pailing was already laying asleep in the stable. It
was decided to leave him sleep as he was noisy and
quarrelsome when awoken while drunk. The jury
returned a verdict of 'died from the effects of
liquor', being left in a stable from six o'clock
till seven the next morning unlooked after. They
considered Mr. Adams deserved censure as he was the
last person to see Pailing in the stable on the evening of his death.(1)
*Henry
Adams' daughter Naomi married John Single of Liverpool Plains in August
1851
(1)MM
3 April 1847
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