On 13 Nov 1707, seven years after her first husband's death, Katherine WALLEY (née BRATTLE) married Waitstill WINTHROP (who had once been one of the Salem witch trial judges - see also a further Brattle connection here to these tragic events ...)

"Governor Phips set up a special Court of Oyer and Terminer comprised of seven judges to try the witchcraft cases. Appointed were Lieutenant Governor William Stoughton, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Bartholomew Gedney, Peter Sergeant, Samuel Sewall, Wait Still Winthrop, John Richards, John Hathorne, and Jonathan Corwin."

"These magistrates based their judgments and evaluations on various kinds of intangible evidence, including direct confessions, supernatural attributes (such as 'witchmarks'), and reactions of the afflicted girls. Spectral evidence, based on the assumption that the Devil could assume the 'specter' of an innocent person, was relied upon despite its controversial nature."

Note on King's Chapel Burial Ground - Boston
Major General Wait Still Winthrop, a grandson of Massachusetts's first governor, John Winthrop, is buried in the Winthrop tomb (small picture here). Wait Still served Massachusetts as a member of the council and as commander-in-chief of the provincial forces. In 1692, he sat on the Court of Oyer and Terminer and later on the Superior Court which tried the remaining witchcraft cases in 1693. He died in 1717 at the age of 75.

Thomas Brattle the mathematician and astronomer is also buried in this cemetery.