Colonial 'country boy' annoying accents.

Were there rednecks back in the late 1600 early 1700's? Most of the evil 'fishermen' sound like good ol' boys from Hazard County, epitomized by 'Good Guy' Warren Oates. That has to be his Muhlenburg County, Kentucky, coal town native accent.
' Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.'-Marx