Act of Denization from
Queen Anne Recorded for Luis Gomez
Sunday, October 11, 1998
at 2:00 PM The certificate of Denization (naturalization)
from Queen Anne, that enabled Luis
Moses Gomez, a Sephardic Jew fleeing the Spanish Inquisition,
to buy 6000 acres in the Orange/Ulster area to build a trading
post in 1714 and to purchase the land in Manhattan so Shearith
Israel, the oldest Jewish Congregation in America would
have a synagogue and building to worship in, will be returned
and unveiled at the Gomez Mill House in Marlboro, NY for
the first time in almost three hundred years thanks to a
friend of the Gomez
Foundation for Mill House.