Ledyard and Florence Blair were known for their equestrian skills, but especially for their award-winning talent in driving horse-drawn carriages and road coaches, as evidenced by their memberships in, respectively, New York’s Coaching Club and Ladies-Four-In-Hand Driving Club. The four Blair daughters were also skilled equestriennes—riding both sidesaddle and astride—and learned at a young age
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Westminster?
In 1902 C. Ledyard Blair, who was then in the process of completing the construction of his Blairsden mansion in what is now Peapack-Gladstone, NJ, proposed changing the name of Peapack to Westminster. Obviously, the suggestion didn’t go anywhere.
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