Christopher Wormeley (died 1656) was a British military officer who served as governor of Tortuga before becoming the secretary of state for the Virginia Colony (1635–1649) as well as captain of the fort at Old Point Comfort beginning in 1638.
[5] When the colony's secretary, Mathew Kemp, fled to England in 1640, Wormeley may have accompanied him, both being unpopular, and had difficulty returning to Virginia.
[5] Wormeley married Mary Adams in England, who bore at least two children who survived him, as well as accompanied him to the Virginia colony and remarried after his death.
Their son, Christopher Wormeley Jr. (d. 1701) inherited land from their father and developed at least one plantation further upstream on the York River in what had become Lancaster and later Middlesex County.
This man's daughter Elizabeth successively married colonial secretary Richard Kemp, councillor Thomas Lunsford and Major General Robert Smith.