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NY home of Washington's wartime doctor up for sale

ST. JOHNSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - George Washington didn't sleep there, but his doctor did. The upstate New York home of Washington's personal physician is for sale.
    
The Daily Gazette of Schenectady reports  that the 18th-century mansion formerly owned by Gen. John Cochran is on the market for just under $1 million. Known as the Gen. Cochran Farm, the 177-acre property is located in the rural town of St. Johnsville, on the Mohawk River 50 miles northwest of Albany.
    
The Pennsylvania-born Cochran was Washington's personal physician and the Continental Army's surgeon general during the Revolutionary War. After the war, Washington appointed him commissioner of loans for New York state.
    
A local historian tells the newspaper that when Cochran was paralyzed by a stroke, he retired to the Mohawk Valley land awarded him for his service during the war.

Gas companies look to run pipe through Schoharie County

SCHOHARIE- El Paso Gas and Cabot Oil and Gas, both from Texas, have recently filed petitions with the Federal Energy Regulatory Comission to run a pipeline through the towns of Jefferson, Summit, Richmondville, Cobleskill, and Schoharie to the Iroquois Gas compressor station in Wright.  Natural gas wells are currently being developed in Pennsylvania and companies are looking for transport that gas to parts of the northeast.

Company representatives have been contacting landowners about easements for the proposed lines. The easements are expected to be 50feet wide.

Survey shows slight decline in real estate pessimism

ALBANY- New Yorkers' pessimistic outlook on the housing market is slowly improving.
    
The Siena Research Institute released its quarterly survey on real estate sentiment Thursday morning.
    
It finds that although the sales are still down, homeowners are feeling that property values are starting to creep up.
    
There was improvement in upstate New York, but not much change in New York City.