According to G.T. Ridlon, author of Saco Valley Settlements, “The land embraced within the present boundaries of (Buxton) was a grant by the General Court in 1728, to redeem a promise made to the soldiers who participated in the war with the Narragansett Indians in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the Narragansett Army. After the war, there was an effort to settle the area, but it was not until the fall of 1733 that the grantees, met on Boston Common and organized and appointed a Joint Committee to assign townships. This Committee met and assigned the seven Narragansett Grants – beginning with Narragansett Number One, now Buxton, Maine, which was assigned to Philemon Dame and one hundred and nineteen others. The township was unsettled throughout the next several years and finally was incorporated Narragansett Township Number One into a Town by the name of Buxton on July 14th, 1772 by Governor Thomas Hutchinson.

bibliographic record:

Title     A Report of the proceedings at the celebration of the first centennial anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Buxton, Maine, held at Buxton, Aug. 14, 1872 ... by J.M. Marshall.
Publisher     Portland, Me. : Dresser McLellan & Co., 1874.
Phys Descr     288 p. 22 cm.
Series     Bhima MacDonald Sturtevant papers
Note     Genealogies: p. 141-246.
Subject     Buxton (Me.) -- History.
    Buxton (Me.) -- Genealogy.
Alt Author     Marshall, Joel M.
Alt Title     Buxton centennial, 1772-1872.