Luis Moises Gomez

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Luis Moses Gomez (c. 1660–1740

Sephardic Jewish merchant and trader, whose Spanish Jewish ancestors fled to France and England to escape from the Spanish Inquisition
for the New World.

Gomez came to New York in 1703. In 1705 he was granted an

City of New York
, 60 miles (97 km) south.

His house on the Hudson Highlands where several Indian trails converged served as a frontier trading post for the new colonists. Other pioneers, fleeing tyranny, and the cruelties in Europe for the promise of a new life, then settled in the Hudson Valley. His house has been continuously inhabited for more than 280 years, and it is the earliest known surviving Jewish residence in the country and the oldest home in Orange County listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[2]

In 1727 he led the drive to finance and construct the Mill Street Synagogue in lower Manhattan, the first Synagogue of Shearith Israel, America's oldest Jewish congregation, and in 1728 he served as its first Parnas (president (Hebrew.))

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References

  1. ISBN 0-8018-4343-X
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  2. ^ a b "Gomez Mill House: History". May 7, 2007. Archived from the original on December 11, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-13.

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