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,...