Our Accent (1 Viewer)

[Tex]

I realize this is a bit of an out-of-the-norm question.
Often when reading about the early post-revolutionary years of the US, especially the incidents leading up to the War of 1812, I read that, at the time, it was difficult, though possible, to dicern the American accent from an English accent. I was wondering if any history-minded linguistic experts out there knew what we sounded like back then; what our Founding Fathers sounded like. Did we have something like an Australian accent, perhaps? I know New Englanders have trouble pronouncing an American "r" sound and often add r's where they don't belong, like Kennedy's "Cubar." The stereotypical southern aristocrats of the Civil War had the same almost-British sounding lack-of-an "r" sound.
What did we sound like?

 

[eborris]

Funny, coming from the midwest, Chicago to be exact, I don't think we have any accent at all, but when I travel to Texas or down south they say we do. Infact one girl from texas told me, "ya'll talk funny".

 

[Tex]

To clarify things, I do not have what you'd term a "Texan" (but really southern) accent. I from back east, so I guess I speak more like a news anchor.
I met some people from Chicago in July, and I must say, some of you folks have an accent. The thing that made it obvious was when one girl said "baddy butter" as "beyaddie butter."
But seriously, hasn't anyone wondered how we used to sound? How it's changed? As boring as this might sound to some people, I am fascinated.