Robert Lewis was a 28-year-old African American man who was lynched in Port Jervis, New York on June 2, 1892.

His lynching was attended by what the local newspaper reported was a mob of 2,000 people,[1] and may have inspired Stephen Crane's novella The Monster.

[2] Lewis was accused by the mob of assaulting a white woman, Lena McMahon, in an incident by the Neversink River,[1] after she had possibly been meeting with her estranged suitor, a white man named Peter Foley.

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