MORELL, William, clergyman, born in England" died there. He came to Massachusetts in 1623 with the company that was sent out by the Plymouth council under the command of Captain Robert Gorges, son of Sir Ferdinando Gorges (q. v.). He was a minister of the established church and bore a commission from the ecclesiastical court to exercise superintendence over the churches that were, or might be, established in the colony. The attempt by this company to form a settlement at Wessagussett (now Weymouth) was unsuccessful. After Gorges's departure Morell remained a year at Plymouth, and then followed him to England, where he soon published a poem entitled "Nova Anglia" (London) in Latin hexameters, which was afterward translated into English heroics and dedicated to Charles I. It is mainly occupied with a description of the animal inhabitants of New England, and the aborigines. The entire poem is reprinted in the " Collections" of the Massachusetts historical society (first series, vol. i.).