In 1647 Wormeley was (again) named a justice of the peace for York County, and by 1648 also served as captain of its militia.Tyler Henry Norwood, a fleeing Cavalier, visited his home on Wormeley Creek near Yorktown in 1649, and named other guests at a party as Sir Thomas Lunsford, Sir Philip Honywood, Sir Henry Chicheley (the colony's deputy governor and who would marry his widow) and Col. Hammond.36 VA.Mag H&B 99 Also in 1649, York County voters elected Wormeley as one of their representatives in the House of Burgesses. The following year, the exiled king Charles at Breda in the Netherlands signed a paper appointing Wormeley to the Virginia Governor's Council.Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978), pp. 27
