THE CROWN - ANVIL CREEK

Henry Kesteron had been proprietor of the Bush Tavern at Black Creek in the early 1840's.

His beloved wife Emma had died on the 12th November aged 32 years after a painful and protracted illness and Henry was left with a family of five young children to raise and no doubt was unable to manage the Inn alone.

Auctioneer Jeremiah Ledsam was to auction the Inn on the 10th of December 1846 at 11am. He advertised it as an important and extensive sale with property of superior description with articles as were deemed indispensable in a well regulated and respectable establishment.

The Inn was situated half way on the road from Singleton to Maitland and doing a first rate trade. It contained eleven rooms and four acres of gardens. A paddock of 20 acres with a never failing supply of water was also part of the property.

As well as the stock in trade of the Inn, there were the bar Fixtures comprising every article in the line and a first rate Beer engine. Also for sale was Kesterton's second hand Stanhope Gig, cart,  horses and colts. A large and splendid assortment of household furniture consisting of Cane seated chairs, telescope tables, dining tables, Dee tables dressing tables table covers horse hair sofas chiffonier, side boards, decanters cut and plain glass, cruet stands, pickle stands, chest drawers, books, pictures, sporting plates, bedsteads, wash hand stands furnished, feather beds, blankets, counterpanes, bed covers, horse hair mattresses, wool mattresses, oil cloths, carpets, fenders, fire irons and Kitchen utensils (3)