Henry Bishop Butler was innkeeper at the Woolpack Inn in Murrurundi in 1847. Ten years previously he had been in partnership with John Anlaby in Morpeth. This partnership was dissolved and Anlaby carried on the Morpeth Hotel alone

It was not unusual for innkeepers to be required to attend court. Henry Butler travelled from Murrurundi to Maitland at least twice in 1847. On 19th February he appeared as a witness in a court case in Maitland. George MacDonald who was employed by Butler as a waiter at his hotel also travelled to Maitland to testify. Thomas Sexton had been indicted for stealing a mare belonging to Richard Rouke. The horse was found in Butler's stable at the Inn.

In December 1847 Henry Butler took out an Auctioneer's License for the district of Scone and Murrurundi (36) and by 1848 Lewis Cohen had taken over the Woolpack Inn. In February of that year a man calling himself John Logan stopped at Cohen's Inn. He was accompanied by two men who acted as his servants. He told Mr. Cohen that his father had a station in new England and that he had relations at Dungog and Paterson, however Cohen began to be suspicious the next morning when the visitor was unable to write his name. It was found that the cheque he had given was invalid and he was soon placed under arrest. His name turned out to be William Duggan and he would later serve 3 years labour on the roads for his dishonesty. (37)

(37)MM 13 September 1848