Together they had five children: Peter (1757), John (1759), Mary (1761), Henry, Susannah (1765).
[1] At the time of his death, his estate included 155 enslaved people, which he did not manumit.
Instead these people were inherited, along with cattle, by his three living sons.
[2][3] After marrying his second wife, Morell purchased Ossabaw Island from his new father-in-law (1760, 1763).
[4] He began a large timbering, ship-building, and indigo-cultivation enterprise facilitated by the 150 enslaved people recorded in his will.