Popular party, in 1689, 73; constitution of, 74, 136; in control of the city, 78; downfall of, 86; opposed by Fletcher, 97; corruption of, 104; hated by Cornbury, 104; newspaper of the, 123; known as Whigs, 125; great families in, 136; shrink from independence, 149; excesses by, 151
Population, increase of, 18; character of early, 34, 35, 47, 48; at time of second establishment of English rule, 59; fusion of races, 72, 108, 227; in 1710, 108; at outbreak of Revolution, 108; diversity of, 108; line drawn between Provincial and Old World people, 114; Presbyterians, Dutch, and Huguenots, 136; increase after Revolution, 173; at beginning of nineteenth century, 202; condition at close of war of 1812, 210, 211; in 1820, 213; increase of, 215; in 1860, 245; proportion of foreign element in, 256; Americanization of, 256
