While there were obviously many colonials who were English speaking and thus had an accent to lose, this article like many about that time and place in history

While there were obviously many colonials who were English speaking and thus had an accent to lose, this article like many about that time and place in history fails to observe that English was by no means the only language in use and the reason we do not have an official language in this country today. My German-speaking family arrived on this continent before the revolution and only switched to English around 1898, as near as we can tell.