Whose name is on this map?

Question

A map of Isle Saint-Jean, apparently drawn in 1764, purports to be the work of a cartographer named "W.J. Hebert". This blog post contains images and a description. The question is, who's W.J. Hebert? The blog post author thinks there's reason to believe he was British (I exchanged emails on this with him.), which is a little odd in this case but not impossible. I've suggested that it could be a copy/non-contemporaneous map by cartographer L.J. Hebert (many years later), before deciding he preferred L to W (Liam / William?) but I have yet to determine what his initials stood for. 

Answer 1

A search on Hebert Map 1764 only comes up with the place Hebert.  However, there was a William Herbert who was a prolific mapmaker in that timeframe.  If the note had been added by someone else, it's possible they mis-spelt the name...

Comments

Thanks, Rick. He turned up in my research but I didn't really suspect it was him. As far as I can tell, his middle name (if he had one) isn't well known. Maybe whoever wrote the name conflated him with L.J. Hebert.