Josiah Priest

Josiah Priest (December 9, 1788 - April 1851) was an American writer on the history of the United States, somewhat popular in his time for works on the Mound Builders and the Lost Tribe of Israel in the Pre-Colombian Americas, Scriptural defences of slavery, and denunciations of Universalism and Millerism, as well as his pamphleteering of Colonial and Revolutionary stories (with something of a focus on episodes of soldiers being held in captivity by Native tribes).