John Wormley was named as an owner of lot 2 of the Manor of Paxton or Louther, which was of the Manor on Conodoguinette. The manor embraced all the land between the Conodoguinette and the Yellow Breeches creek, extending as far west as the road leading from the Conodoguinette to the Yellow Breeches, past the Stone church or Frieden's Kirch, and immediately below Shiremanstown. [1]
1780 John Wurmley was taxed for 188 acres and John Wormley was taxed as a freeman in East Pennsboro Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania [2]
1781 John Wormley was taxed for 188 acres and John Wormley Jr was taxed for 0 acres in East Pennsboro Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania [3]
1782 John Wormley was taxed for 188 acres and John Wormley Jr was taxed for 0 acres in East Pennsboro Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania [4]
1785 John Wormley Sr was taxed for 188 acres and John Wormley was taxed for 125 acres in East Pennsboro Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania [5]
1790 John Wormley lived in Hopewell, Newton, Tyborn, and Westpensboro, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in a household with 2 males under age 16, 2 males age 16 and over, and 1 females. [6]
1800 Jno Wormly lived in East Pennsboro Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 3 (under 10), 1 (10 thru 15), 3 (16 thru 25), and 1 (26 thru 44); and females: 1 (16 thru 25) and 1 (26 thru 44). [7]
1810 John Wormeley lived in East Pennsboro Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 2 (under 10), 3 (10 thru 15), 2 (16 thru 25), and 2 (26 thru 44); and females: 1 (under 10), 2 (10 thru 15), and 1 (26 thru 44). [8]
1815 "Wormleysburg immediately above the Harrisburg bridge on the right bank of the Susquehanna was laid out in 1815 by John Wormley whose name it bears." [9]
1820 John Wormley lived in East Pennsboro Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 4 (under 10), 1 (10 thru 15), 2 (16 thru 25), and 1 (45 and over); and females: 1 (under 10), 1 (10 thru 15), 1 (16 thru 25), and 1 (26 thru 44). [10]
1821 John Wormley, of Cumberland County, testified about the Revolutionary War service of John Leonard Spong (relation unknown). [11]
1821-25 "Died 26 Jan, after a short illness, John Wormley, esq. proprietor of ... of Lancaster County, to Miss Maria Wormley, of Wormleysburg, Cumberland co." [12]
1825 The estate of John Wormley was considered in the courts. [13]"
Common Please of Cumberland county: This was an action of ejectment, in which, in the court below, Jacob Bower was defendant. and Abraham Oyster and George Oyster were plaintiffs. John Wormley, in his life time, was the owner of the house and lot in Wormleysburg, for which the ejectment was brought, and both plaintiff's and defendants claimed title under him. In 1820, Wormley being indebted to Bower, they made a parol agreement, by which, the possession of the house and lot in controversy, was delivered to Bower, to hold as a security for the payment of his debt, and until it was paid The proof was, that the annual value of the house was about equal to the interest of the debt. After 1820, Wormley became insolvent and died intestate. In 1825, William Line, Esquire, became the administrator of Wormley, and applied to the Orphans' Court for an order to sell his real estate, for the payment of debts, and among other parcels of real estate, which he was ordered by the court to sell, was the house and lot for which this ejectment was brought. He sold it to the plaintiffs, Abraham and George Oyster, and the question was, whether they were entitled to recover from Bower, without paying his debt due to him by Wormley. ....the defendant... entered into a parol agreement with John Wormley, in his lifetime, by which he agreed and actually loaned to said Wormley four hundred and fifty six dollars, and said Wormley, to secure the payment thereof, then agreed, and actually delivered to the defendant, the possession of the house and lot of ground in dispute, to be held by him until the said money was repaid; and that defendant took possession, and still holds the same under the parol contract, and the money is yet unpaid; and that at the time of Wormley's death, no judgment existed against his estate, prior in point of date, and lien to the date of said contract; and that when the plaintiff's purchased, they had notice of the defendant's title and claim, and that he claimed to hold possession, until his debt was paid; then the plaintiffs cannot disturb defendant's possession, without payment be made of his debt.
[1] I. Daniel Rupp, The history and Topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, and Perry Counties (1846), 356, [GoogleBooks].
[2] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 20 (Cumberland Taxables) (1897), 285, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[3] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 20 (Cumberland Taxables) (1897), 424, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[4] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 20 (Cumberland Taxables) (1897), 561, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[5] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 20 (Cumberland Taxables) (1897), 710, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[6] United States Federal Census, 1790, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[7] United States Federal Census, 1800, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[8] United States Federal Census, 1810, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[9] I. Daniel Rupp, The history and Topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, and Perry Counties (1846), 438, [GoogleBooks].
[10] United States Federal Census, 1820, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[11] William Henry Egle, Notes and Queries Historical Biographical and Genealogical Vol. 2, no. 1-7 (1887-91), 456, [GoogleBooks].
[12] F. Edward Wright, Marriages and Deaths of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania: 1821-1830 (2009), 13, [GoogleBooks].
[13] Jasper Yeates, Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Vol. 3 (1871 reprint of 1818 edition), 239, [GoogleBooks].