Pane-Joyce Genealogy
Dea. Ralph Mousall.
Born ca 1603.16 Ralph died in Charlestown, MA on 30 Apr 1657.106
Ralph married
Alice.
Alice died in Charlestown, MA before 4 Feb 1674/5.16
Dea. John Mousall.
John died in Woburn, MA on 27 Mar 1665.25
From The Brooks Family, pages 4–5:167
John Mousall was a founder and much honored citizen of Woburn, the erecter of one of the first houses. Deacon Mousall died Mar. 27, 1665, leaving a widow. Joanna, a son, John Mousall, and a daughter, Eunice, the wife of John Brooks, “but the name of Mousall (pronounced Mowz-zall) as a surname, is now extinct from the place.” The will of the senior John Mousall (19th of the 4th month, 1660) makes his two sons, John Mousall and John Brooks, joint executors; gives to his son Brooks’s three children, and to his grandchild, Sarah Brooks, and to his grandchild, Eunice (Unis) Brooks; to his son, John Brooks (in whose house John Mousall, Sr.’s, widow was to have a peaceable living): gives also to his grandchild, Joanna Brooks; and certain residue of his lands to his two sons (John Mousall. aud son-in-law John Brooks) John Mousall. Jr.’s, wife being the sister of John Brooks, this relationship of the son is more clearly understood. It was the case of being doubly brothers-in-law; Brooks marrying the only sister of Mousall, and Mousall marrying a sister of Brooks. From this circumstance arose a partial (not total) combination of the property of Deacon John Mousall aud Henry Brooks, of which more is said in an article by one of the present writers, in the Register, vol. xlvii., p. 462, et seq.
In his will, Deacon John Mousall gives his great meadow (at Woburn Centre, in the vicinity of Prospect Street, a tract now covered with buildings) to his two sons equally, but in case the son, John Mousall, died without children, then he (John Mousall, Jr.) could give his share to his wife, for use during her life, and after the decease of John Mousall, the said son, and his wife leaving no heir, the share was to return to the son (in-law) John Brooks's children.
John Mousall, Jr., did die without children, and some of his property returned to John Brooks's children, in accordance with the terms of the will.
In 1673, a house described in the town records as the “Hopewell House” was owned in common by John Mousall. Jr.. and John Brooks, being a part of their inheritance from their father, Deacon John Mousall.