General Notes

REFN: 865AN
REFN: P865
Name:    Ralph Mousall
Year:    1630
Place:    Charlestown, Massa chusetts
Source Publication Code:    1936
Primary Immigrant:    Mousall, Ralp h
Annotation:    Excellent directory of the first settlers of New England. D
rake's additions and corrections (no. 1666) are found in the G.P.C. repri
nt and in no. 9151, Tepper, Passengers to America, pp. 468-470. Source Bib
liography:    FARMER, JOHN. A Genealogical Register of the First Settle
rs of New-England; Containing an Alphabetical List of the Governours, Depu
ty-Governours, As sistants or Counsellors, and Ministers of the Gosp
el in the Several Colonies, from 1620 to 1692; Graduates of Harvard Colle
ge to 1662; Members of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company to 166
2; Freemen Admitted to the Massachusetts Colony from 1630 to 1662; With Ma
ny Other of the Early Inhabitants of New-England and Long-Island, N.Y. fr
om 1620 to the Year 1675 .... Lancaster, Mass.: Carter, Andrews, & Co., 18
29. 352p. Reprinted with additions and corrections by Genealogical Publish
ing Co., Baltimore, 1964. Repr. 1976,
1983.
Page:    202
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Charlestown
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "Ralph Mousall and Alice his wife" admitted to Boston c
hurch as members #72 and #73, which would be in the winter of 1630-1 [ BC
hR 13]; on 14 October 1632 "Raph Mousall and Alice his wife" dismiss
ed to the church at Charlestown [BChR 16]; Ralph and Alice Mousall were ad
mitted to Charlestown church as founding members, 2 November 1632 [ ChC
hR 7]. Deacon of Charlestown church (from death record, but probably deac
on for many years before).
FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 and admitted 18 May 1631 (both tim
es as "Ralfe Mushell") [ MBCR 1:80, 366].
EDUCATION: His inventory included "books" valued at £1 10s. Her invento
ry included "Bibles and other books" valued at £1 3s.
OFFICES: Charlestown deputy to General Court, 25 May 1636, 7 May 1651 [MB
CR 1:173, 3:220], and also chosen for that office in September 1638, but n
ot seated [MBCR 1:236]. Commissioner for repair of prison house, 22 May 16
51 [MBCR 1:232]. Commissioner to end small causes at Charlestown, 23 May 1
655 [MBCR 3:395].
Charlestown committee to set rates for labor, 28 November 1636 [ ChTR 2
3]. Charlestown appointee to grand jury for "the court in March," 17 Febru
ary 1636/7 [ChTR 25].
ESTATE: Had a share of three in the hayground, increased to four, 1635 [Ch
TR 19, 20]. Had five acres Mystic SiDe in Charlestown, 1637 [ChTR 27]. H
as three and a quarters shares of hayground, 1637 [ChTR 33]. In the Myst
ic SiDe allotments received parcels of fifteen, forty and five acres, 23 A
pril 1638 [ChTR 36]. Had four and a quarter cow commons, 30 December 16
38 [ChTR 42].
In the 1638 Charlestown Book of Possessions "Ralph Moussell" held eig
ht parcels of land: four acres and a half in High Field, with "a dwelli
ng house and other appurtenances thereunto"; five roods of arable la
nd in High Field (later annotated as sold to Robert Leach); five acres h
ay ground and pasture in High Field; four and a half milch cow commons; o
ne acre meadow in High Field Marsh; five acres woodland in Mystic Marsh
es (later annotated as sold to Peter Tufts); fifteen acres woodland in Mys
tic Field; and fifty acres land in Water Field [ ChBOP 24].
On 8 December 1648 Ralph "Mowshole" sold to George Fowle "all the housi
ng and the garden ground (which the said Mowshole formerly built and dwe
lt in by the way to the penny ferry) and two cow commons and one haylot, w
ith one acre of field in exchange for Fowle maintaining their common fen
ce and £50 [ MLR 5:14]. On 17 December 1649 Ralph Mousall sold to Robert L
each, both of Charlestown, one acre of arable land [MLR 8:91].
In his will, dated 13 April 1657 (with codicil dated 28 April 1657) a
nd proved 23 June 1657, Ralph Mousall of Charlestown bequeathed "to my s
on John Mousall £200 whereof I have given him a