[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).
* Two of Benoni's sons, James and Jesse, named their sons Benoni, although they both went by Benjamin.
* Sale of Land, Henrico County, Virginia, dated May 4, 1736, witnesses Benoni Boatwright and his brother Thomas Boatwright.
* Lease by Henry Trent to Benoni 7-24-1758, Book 2, Page 378, 200 Acres.
* Will of James Daniel, dated October 30, 1760, witnesses Benoni Boatwright and his brother William Boatwright. James Daniel's sons lived near Benoni's sons, Daniel and James in Cumberland County, Virginia. James Boatwright named several of sons with the same names as the sons of James Daniel; "Chesley" and "Leonard".
* Benoni has owed ll.2.2 1/2 pds for six months and has been unable to pay since before 1783.
