Grimsley Original Free Will Baptist Church traces its congregation to about 1762, though the exact founding date is uncertain because early court records were destroyed in an 1880 fire at the Dobbs County Court House. A deed recorded in the Greene County Court House in 1800 confirms that a building was erected on the present site in 1784 with permission from the landowner, James. The church is identified as one of the congregations planted in the area by Joseph Parker, who founded Little Creek Church in 1756, the oldest in the denomination, and also established Gum Swamp Church in Pitt County and Grimsley Church in Greene County. Grimsley and Gum Swamp were both referred to as arms of Little Creek Church, and Grimsley is believed to have taken its name from the Grimsley family home place, which hosted the congregation until a sanctuary could be built in 1784. Over the last 250 years, the congregation survived the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War One, World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, and the war on terrorism, and it also resisted repeated efforts to change its doctrine from the General Baptist tradition. The Calvinist Particular Baptist movement from 1755 to 1765 converted all but five General Baptist churches and all but three ministers, the Campbellite movement from 1834 to 1844 drew several churches into the Disciples of Christ doctrine, and the Holiness movement of 1911 swayed many ministers and congregations. Through these hardships, Grimsley continued as a beacon of light and remained committed to the Armenian General Baptist doctrine known today as Original Free Will Baptist.