That house and some acreage directly across the creek became the core of Rosegill plantation, the family home for more than a century.
In the contract before his marriage discussed below, Wormeley gave his bride a 500 acre plantation in York County that he bought from Jeffrey Power.
[6] In 1647 Wormeley was (again) named a justice of the peace for York County, and by 1648 he also led part of its militia with the rank of captain.
[7] Henry Norwood, a fleeing Cavalier (supporter of King Charles, defeated by Oliver Cromwell's forces in the English Civil War), visited his home on Wormeley Creek near Yorktown in 1649, and named other guests at a party there as Sir Thomas Lunsford, Sir Philip Honywood, Sir Henry Chicheley (the colony's deputy governor and who would marry his widow) and Col.
His widow remarried, to Sir Henry Chicheley, the colony's lieutenant governor, who took up residence at Rosegill as well as raised Ralph Wormeley Jr.