 In a census of 1697, there were 1,452 individuals living in Albany County; two years later it would be counted as 2,016 at the beginning of King William's War.By the end of the war in 1698, the population had dropped to 1,482, but rebounded quickly and was at 2,273 by 1703.By 1723, it had increased to 6,501 and in 1731 to 8,573, which was slightly less than the population of the city of New York in the same year.