His sister Elizabeth (1737-1785) became the second wife of merchant Dudley Digges of Yorktown, who was a burgess and member of the colony's governor's council.

[4][5] On April 4, 1776, patriots intercepted his letter to fellow planter John R. Grymes concerning Lord Dunmore, which prompted Virginia authorities to require that he post a large bond and remain on his father's western Virginia lands, despite his protests.

[7][8][9] Following the conflict, Middlesex County voters thrice elected Wormeley as one of their representatives to the Virginia House of Delegates (1788-1791).

[10] Wormeley also represented Middlesex county at the Virginia Ratifying Convention of 1788, where he voted in favor of ratification of the federal Constitution.

Airy plantation, the daughter of John Tayloe II who sat on the Governor's Council with this man.

Significant acreage from Rosegill plantation was sold by his executors to pay his debts, and the manor house left family control well before the American Civil War.