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Baronet (of Nova Scotia)†
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a hereditary title conferred by James I on 150 persons granted extensive land holdings in what is now the Maritimes.
Quotations
1624
Everie Baronett is to be ane Barone of some one or other of the said Barronies. . . .
1789
Every one of his Knight Baronets had, for his hundred and fifty pounds sterling, heritably disposed unto him, six thousand good and sufficient acres of Nova-Scotia ground; which, being at the rate of six-pence an acre, could not be thought very dear.
1966
Debrett's records that William Forbes was created a baronet of Nova Scotia in 1630 by Charles I and granted 16,000 acres in what now is New Brunswick.