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1716- Court - Chowan Precinct - Capt. John Worley, Esq. - Thomas Lee is accused of maliciously committing false libel in writing to the defaming of Capt. Worley: "through his ignorance and spite to me (meaning the said Thomas Lee) I am like to be a great sufferer in many particulars for he (Worley) gives ill advice to my servants, and . . . " (is not doing his job properly with regard to debts collection).

1716- Court - Chowan Precinct - Capt. John Worley, Esq. - Thomas Lee pleads not guilty to charges of libel against Worley. Repeats his statements of before, and claims that Worley "kicked him" as he left Worley's house.

1716- Court - Chowan Precinct - Capt. John Worley, Esq. acknowledges that he keeps Mary Hawkins as "a hierling and no otherwise". [See above discussion of John Hawkins]

1716- Court - Chowan Precinct - John Worley appointed by the General Court as overseer of a highway to assure that all persons in the area are to work on the road. He was also an assistant justice.

1716- Court - Chowan Precinct - John Worley began an eight year period as a justice in general court.

1716- Court - Chowan Precinct - John Worley served as a Justice of the Peace.

1716- Court - Chowan Precinct - John Worley, Esq. - John Swain petitioned that his orphan sister, bound by the court to John Worley, Esq., may be taught to read by him. It was so ordered.

1717- Tax - Chowan - John Worley, Esq. - Taxpayer - 1900 acres.