The “Burch”, “Lawrence” and “Southern” families are all found in the “Surry County, North Carolina Court Minutes’. A copy can be found at the following:

http://www.coffey.ws/familytree/familynotes/A2SurryDirectory.htm

(Note from Fred Coffey: This is a favorite reference of my own, because Surry County had a substantial presence of people from the “Walker” branch of my own family. However I don’t have time to dig into this source thoroughly for the “Palmer” group - but any reader can examine the above reference.)