Scope and Contents The LaMotte-Coppinger Papers include letters, land deeds, photographs, receipts, inventories, journals, and other miscellaneous material concerning LaMotte’s time in war and his descendant’s family matters. The Joseph LaMotte Series is a compilation arranged chronologically of all letters and postcards received and written by the LaMotte family ranging from 1804-1934. The earliest letters concerned the Chambers family and their...