Pat Purcell Papers. 1812. Whereas I Received Information Upon Oath of Susana Byrne of Hacketstown in the County of Carlow that on the 15th day on December 1812 Mary Kavanagh met me Susana Byrne in the lane I live in in Hacketstown as I was buying Meal from a Girl and Without any Sort of Provocation Whatsoever Pursued me and Swore she Would have my life and as I was terrifyd by what I heard her repeat I Walked Back to my House And Had Not Got Well within Doors When the said Mary Kavanagh, her Daughter Mary Finlon and her Son Laurence Kavanagh Pelted in Stones into my House and Struck my Daughter in the hip with a Stone and the Child of mine in the leg With Another Stone and Cut him and has At Several times the said Mary Kavanagh threatened My life Without me Given her any Provocation (signed) Susannah, herXmark, Byrne. Sworn before me this 9th Day of December 1812. (signed) James Hozier.