George Pearson
George Pearson was living on a plantation in McMinn County, Tennessee in the spring of 1824, on land he had not yet finished paying the State for. McMinn was brand new then. It had been carved out of the Hiwassee Purchase, land the Cherokee gave up by treaty in 1819, and the State sold it to settlers on credit.
On 13 May 1824 he made his will. He had a wife, Allah, and seven children, all of them young enough that he asked for their schooling to be looked after "with all possible care". He wanted the family to stay on the place and run it together. Only if his wife remarried or died was the estate to be split, in equal shares among the seven children and her. He named his wife and his friend James Armstrong as executors and would not have them bound by security. Robert W. McCleary and William Weaver witnessed it.
The will was recorded among the McMinn County wills, so he was dead by the time it was copied into the book. The State finished the purchase in his children's names. When the family sold the land in 1839 the deed described it as 160 acres, the southwest quarter of Section 33 in the Hiwassee District, "granted by the State of Tennessee to the heirs of George W Pearson deceased". His widow sold it that September and went to Texas.
A lineage compiled in the twentieth century by a descendant of his granddaughter Lucinda gives his birth as 1781 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, his death in McMinn County with the will proved in 1827, and his father as Christian Pearson of Hawkins County, Tennessee. Christian Pearson did have a son George. But that George was still alive to join his brothers and sisters in a lawsuit over their father's land in about 1834, years after the McMinn man was dead, so the two were probably different men.
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Cite: Heirology, "George Pearson (b. 1781)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/george-pearson-1781-c2abe2.