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Excerpt from The Ancestry of Daniel Morrell of Hartford: With His Descendants and Some Contemporary Families The surname of Morrell existed in England prior to the year 1500; how much earlier or whence its origin, does not appear. Several American genealogists have concluded that the name is of French parentage and reached England by the way of Holland some time fol lowing the religious wars of the sixteenth century in France. The Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler, whose mother was a Morrell and who was greatly interested in the study of Morrell history, inclined to this View and the theory finds additional favor from the historian of the Holland Society of New York. A number of Mor rell genealogical sketches and historical reviews have been published in England but none of them aims to cover more than a single lineage or small group of the family and it has never been the good fortune of the writer to find evidence of authority on the subject of English origin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.