Did John Hancock have a british accent?

I was doing an Oral report where I had to talk about John Hancock as if I was him and I was wondering if he had a British accent.
Did John Hancock have a british accent?
yes, the Colonists and the British Islanders probably had very similar accents. Of course, there are probably a half dozen different british accents you would here if you were in England right now, so exactly what that accent would be is a bit hard to say. Normally port cities and towns would have the most similar accents due to so much colonial-british empire interactions.





He sure wouldn't have sounded like a modern day American
Did John Hancock have a british accent?
More than likely yes. Probably sounded like the Kings James version of the Bible.
Reply:He would have had a New England accent . Probably a very rich new england accent at that .
Reply:According to H.L. Menken’s “The American Language” (1921), a distinctive American dialect had developed by the time of the American Revolution. It was roundly criticized in England, but defiantly used by Americans even though, technically, they were still then British subjects. The 1770’s were 150 years from the earliest English settlers, so many generations had developed various “Americanisms” and other “corruptions” of the English of the mother country. A similar evolution happened with the colony of Australia where a very distinctive dialect has developed.