[DustyB72 originally shared this 25 Dec 2009]
Source: Boat(w)right History of America
From Ron Boatright, Orange Park, Florida who has undertaken an intensive search for ancestors of James Boatright and his siblings.
Ron feels that the Allen brothers story is apocryphal and family DNA testing has confirmed the Allen brothers story to be false. Although Ron has no firm documentation, he has compiled considerable circumstantial evidence with the help of professional researchers indicating that Benoni Boatwright, (b. ca. 1710), in Virginia was the father of James (b. ca. 1745) and probably two other sons, Daniel (b. ca. 1739) and Jesse (b. ca. 1741).