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Baronet (of Nova Scotia) † Hist.

• n. a hereditary title conferred by James I on 150 persons granted extensive land holdings in what is now the Maritimes.

  See also: barony (def. 1)  Nova Scotia Knight  

  • 1624  (1835)  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.