Apparently the pirate accents are from the Saxon areas of England, suggesting most pirates (and thus most colonialists) were Saxon.
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Johnny Depp's Keith RIchards' London + trans-Atlantic + a bit of random whatever mix accent in his movies is paradoxically probably pretty realistic too. A lot of these guys would have basically lived at sea from early childhood.
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It's been pointed out to me that the land-based part of Treasure Island is actually set in Bristol, so that's the obvious accent for Long John Silver.
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