Hannah (Flint) Dassett - Which Hannah or Anna Flynt married which man?

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While it has often appeared in print, Timothy Dwight's 3rd wife Anna Flint was not the daughter of Henry and Margery (Hoare) Flynt of Braintree. Their daughter Hannah married John Dassett of Braintree. Sometimes this conflict has been "resolved" by saying that she was the widow of John Dassett, but if you look at the records 1) Timothy Dwight didn't marry a Hannah Dasset, the marriage is to Anna Flint 2) John Dassett didn't die until 1699 3) John and Hannah Dassett had children recorded in Braintree during the time she was supposedly married to Timothy Dwight of Dedham.

And although the names Anna and Hannah can be interchangeable, Timothy's wife is consistently referred to as An, Ana or Anna, while the daughter of Henry Flynt/wife of John Dassett is consistently referred to as Hanna or Hannah.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to figure out the origins Anna Flint, wife to Timothy Dwight. but they don't seem to be the same person.

I think it needs more research. This is what I had seen:

Hannah Dassett

From The King Family of Suffield, Connecticut, Its English Ancestry, A.D. 1389-1662, and American Descendants, A.D. 1662-1908: Comprising Numerous Branches in Many States of the United States, Also Appendices Containing Information Concerning Some of Its Maternal Ancestors (Google eBook) Press of the Walter N. Brunt Company, 1908 - 592 pages. Page 535

The statement that Anna Flynt Dwight was the daughter of Rev. Henry Flynt is given on the authority of "The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass., by Benjamin W. Dwight;" of two writers to the Boston, Mass., "Transcript," January, 1907, and of Savage under the name of "Dwight," who there states that Timothy Dwight's third wife was "Ann Flint, daughter of Henry, whom he married 9 Jany., 1665, who died 29 Jany., 1685." The Dedham records give the following:— "1664—Tym. Dwight, & Ana Flint was married 9, 11, 1664." But the Braintree records state that "John Dassitt and Hanna Fflynt were married the 9th, mo. 15, 1662, by Major Willard," and there has been some confusion as to whether or no this "Hanna Fflynt" was Anna, daughter of Rev. Henry, and, if so, whether John Dassitt died and Anna then married Timothy Dwight. Savage, under the name "Dassett," states that "John, Braintree, married 15 Sept. 1662, Hannah, daughter of Thomas Flynt, of Concord, as one report is, tho. I think a better is, 15 Nov. as the town rec. to Ann, daughter of Rev. Henry Flynt," and concludes, "His widow perhaps married Timothy Dwight." This though John Dassett seems to have lived later than 1664. Pope, after recording the birth of Anna, daughter of Rev. Henry Flynt, in parenthesis notes the marriage of Hannah to John Dassett. The New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Register of April, 1899, p. 189, states that Anna, daughter of Rev. Henry, "married John Dassett, 1662." That the "Hanna Fflynt" who married John Dassett was not Rev. Henry's daughter Anna, but might well have been his niece, daughter of Rev. Thomas, of Concord, according to the report referred to by Savage, seems considerably confirmed not only by the differences in the names Hannah and Anna, but also by the names of the children of John and Hannah Fflynt Dassett and of Timothy and Ana Flynt Dwight. The Dassitt children were John, Joseph, Mary and Sarah. By a former wife, Timothy Dwight had children, Timothy, John and Sarah. The first child by Ana Flynt was Josiah, the name of Rev. Henry Flynt's oldest son (mentioned in his will), who was less than two years younger than the daughter Anna. Josiah Dwight died soon and the fourth child was also named Josiah. Rev. Henry's only other son who lived beyond infancy and to maturity was Seth, and Anna Flynt Dwight's fifth child was named Seth, her sixth (the only daughter), Anna, and her seventh Henry. (Henry was Anna's son if Savage was correct, as there are reasons for thinking he was, in believing that the Dedham record of "Anna, deceased 15, 8; 75" referred to Timothy and Ana Flynt Dwight's two months' old daughter Anna.)
It is of course possible that [[Rev. Henry Flint Rev. Henry Flint] Rev. Henry Flynt] had a daughter Hannah and a daughter Anna, as had one of Anna Flynt Dwight's descendants.