Served in stead for his father-in-law Joel Clemons in the army during the Revolutionary War.13

Anna applied for Rev. War widow's pension in 1846. 27 January 1846 Anna Martin, widow of Joseph Martin, aged eighty-six years, applied for a widow's pension based on Joseph Martin's Revolutionary War service.She state that "her name before marriage was Anna Clemens and that she was married to the said Joseph Martin in the town of Woodbury in the state of Connecticut her then place of residence on the sixteenth day of March Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Eight.