One of the earliest examples currently identified of the traditional New England farmer’s frock or smock, similar to those also famously worn by waggoners and mariners. The fabric is a blue linsey-woolsey, woven in a stripe pattern with off-white linen warp and indigo blue woolen weft, the white and blue threads doubled to form a twill-like appearance. The frock is approximately 45 inches long by 32 inches wide, with wide, gusseted sleeves gathered into the body armholes and 2 inch-wide cuffs, each closed by a bone “dead-eye” button. It has reinforcing straps and neck gussets on each shoulder and a narrow collar closing with one button. There are pockets set into the side-seams on each side, with bags of blue-striped, homespun linen. The frock evidences long usage and wear, with multiple period repairs and patches, and some loss to the lower front. Provenance: 2018 estate sale at the Plumer House (c. 1700) on the Lower Green, home of the Plumer-Humphreys-Barton family that first settled Newbury, Massachusetts in the early 1600s. Note: The reproduction garments photographed on mannequin with the smock do not convey with the original.