Mill Cove was originally granted to Jacque Louis Jollimore (1754-1833) age 38 and John Troop (1792), after both men and their families had lived in the community for many decades.
James Lewis Jollimore was born in Lunenburg and was the first to settle at Mill Cove with his wife Catherine (c. 1778).
James's father was a French Protestant who came from Montbeliard, France to settle in Lunenburg.
James's father was part of the "foreign protestant" migration from Europe to Nova Scotia.
He died a year after he was officially granted 500 acres (2.0 km2) of land at Mill Cove at age 79 (1782).