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The Act that created Pitt County on January 1, 1761 also called for the creation of a courthouse, prison, and stocks on John Hardee's land who also donated his house as the first courthouse of Pitt County. An Act of the State Assembly in 1775 appointed George Evans, Charles Forbes, Henry Ellis, Benjamin May, and William Roberson to oversee the building of a new courthouse, completed in Martinsborough around 1776. Following a petition by Pitt County to implement an annual tax to build a third courthouse in 1789, the government appointed James Armstrong, Shadrach Allen, John Moye, Arthur Forbes, Samuel Simpson, Benjamin Bell, and William Blount to oversee the process. The builders completed the third courthouse about 1792 on the courthouse square at the corner of Evans and Third Street. George Eason, James Blow, Bryan Grimes, Goold Hoyt and John Norcott commissioned Goold Hoyt to build the fourth courthouse, completed in 1834. A man named Croom burned this courthouse down on January 7, 1858 in order to destroy a will. A Pitt County committee awarded the contract to Dabney Cosbey to build the fifth courthouse in August 1858, though the courthouse was not completed until 1877. This courthouse burned down on February 24, 1910. The architectural firm of Milburn and Heister of Baltimore Maryland designed the sixth and final courthouse, built in 1911.