Career
Gomez came to New York in 1703. In 1705 he was granted an Acting of Denization from Queen Anne of England. Gomez established himself as a prominent businessman and leader within the early Jewish community in New York and in 1714 he purchased 6,900 acres (28 km2) in Marlboro on the west side of the Hudson River in the then-British colony of New New York
There he built a single-story fieldstone block house now called the Gomez Mill House.
He quarried limestone and milled timber there for the 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.
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)).
