| Site Name | Buxton's Property, East Coast |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Oyster Bay / Little Swanport |
| Colony | VDL |
| Present State/Territory | TAS |
| Police District | Waterloo Point |
| Latitude | -42.19 |
| Longitude | 147.883 |
| Date | 14 Mar 1826 |
| Attack Time | night |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victims Killed | 6 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M at least 6 unspecified, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Attackers | Colonisers: Field Police, Stockkeeper |
| Attackers Killed | 1 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M 1 Roberts, a servant, of settler Buxton, F; Wounded: M F |
| Transport | Foot |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Firearms, muskets, pistols, blades, bayonets |
| Narrative | Following the alleged killing of Roberts by Oyster Bay warriors, a convict servant assigned to settler Thomas Buxton, at 'Mayfield', Oyster Bay, the magistrate at Waterloo Point recorded four or five years later, that at the time of the incident a party went out after them and that one Aborigine was wounded. A few years later Buxton’s neighbour, Dr Story, interviewed Buxton’s daughter about the incident and sent her account to historian James Bonwick. She said that the party killed several Aborigines at their camp that night. |
| Sources | TAHO CSO 1/316: 840; Bonwick 1870: 117. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
