A short distance east is Rosegill. The house was built about 1650 by the first Ralph Wormeley; it became the summer home of the Colonial Governors, Sir Henry Chicheley and Lord Howard of Effingham. In 1776 the owner, the fifth Ralph Wormeley was put under restraint as a Tory, in 1781, Rosegill was plundered by British Privateersmen.
Conservation and Development Commission 1930
B Newman Memorical Highway, Urbanna Middlesex County Virginia
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