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There was a recent sale of one of Joshua's token on ebay, but i thin kthe image has now been archived.

As well as this private sale there are two of his tokens in the British Museum.  The link is www.britishmuseum.org/...museum/.../coins.../history_of_the_collection.aspx and type his name in the collections search and two entries come up for him.  You can by the looks of it obtain photographs of the tokens from them, but it does not look cheap!

This entry also came up for your Joshua when googling his name + Chatham.

 Minute Book - February 1668, 3-14 | Calendar of Treasury Books ...
Petition read from the Farmers of the London Excise about Joshua Holland of
Chatham. Holland to be summoned to attend next Tuesday. Same read from Col.

www.british-history.ac.uk/report

Catharina


   

Just thought I would update you on Joshua Holland of Chatham.  If you type his name plus trade tokens in Google Books you will find that he produced his own trade token in the 1660s in Chatham. 

The book by Williamson gives a bit of info on the token. 

Good hunting

Catharina

Hi

Joshua Holland or sometimes called Josiah was a Quaker from Chatham in Kent.  He died in 1695 and left a will.  He was an active quaker contributing £7 15s to the purchasing of a burial ground in Rochester Kent in 1675 (the largest donation) He was arrested in 1683 for being more than 5 miles from his abode and imprisoned at Maidstone. He was also arrested in 1682 & 1685 in Chatham.  The Chatham St Marys Churchwarden Accounts indicate he refused to pay the church rate in 1673, 1674, 1675, 1676, 1677, 1678, 1681 & by 1683 is marked 'gone ' ie he was in prison.  Because of the clampdown on quakers in the 1680s he may have gone to London, but also his job as mariner may have made him move.  I suspect that he had 5 children & that each received 1000 acres of land in Pennsylvania.  The fifth child was presumably a daughter married to a Slany to produce a grandchild by that name.  This was a name that existed in the Chatham parish registers for that period.  Unfortunately no early Rochester Quaker Meeting records survive so his marriage or that of some of his children may not be traceable.  The court records are published in J S Cockburn 'Calendar of Assize records : Kent indictments 1676-1686'.  I have found this out doing local quaker research & would verify the information you have on the other Holland children.

Catharina

PS I work at the local archives so will check Chatham transcriptions to see if I can find a Slany who married a Holland.