| Description | This popular stripe came from the Governor Goodwin farm in North Berwick, Maine. The Thomas Strahan Company obtained the paper through Colonel Robert E. Goodwin, descendant of Ichabod Goodwin, who first settled on the Berwick Common lands in 1750. Records show that the paper was hung prior to 1796. It was applied in squares. However, there is little information about the origin of the pattern, although it is known that several dealers in Boston, Massachusetts, were advertising stripes of "new and large assortments" at this early date. Those dealers included Prentis & May (43 Marlborough St., 1790), Joseph Hovey (74 Cornhill St., 1794), and Moses Grant (6 Union St., 1780). |
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