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Virginia,
Since he served in one or possibly two Continental regiments, the place to get his service record is from NARA, not from the Virginia State Library.
The service files are on ancestry.com. If you have a credit card, the price to subscribe to American databases for one month is a lot less than NARA now charges for service record copies. What they will send you will be the compiled service record, copies of cards that transcribes data from the original rolls that are on Ancestry. They will not send you copies of the original rolls.
You can also borrow the microfilm for the original rolls via inter-library loan from NARA. These would be, for your man, rolls (all within NARA's Micropublication 246, "Revolutionary War Rolls"):
--#106 for the 8th VA Regiment's rosters
--#99 for after May 1779, when the 8th VA was merged with another VA Regiment and the combination renamed the 4th VA Regiment
--#113 for miscellaneous VA Regiments
The index on ancestry.com shows a man by this name on all three of those microfilm rolls, but not listed in any PA Continental Regiment.
Finding where on a given microfilm roll your man is listed is some work, but if you are not vision-impaired it is fun and rewarding.
Or if your library subscribes to HeritageQuest, you can download free at least the Congressional Bounty Land reference card (the Bounty Land files themselves burned either in 1800 or in 1815) and several pages from his Pension Application File. Some libraries allow access only from computers at their own sites, but some have arranged to allow you access from home by entering your library card number or driver's license number. You can telephone your local library to find out; some libraries have web sites from which they allow access to various on-line databases including HeritageQuest with a simple link.
Or you can take advantage of footnote.com's short-term free-access offer that supposedly allows access to the *complete* Pension Application Files that you can print or download from that site. The access did not work for me, but if you have a pretty up-to-date computer it may work for you. footnote.com also has the cards with the Compiled Service Records that you can print or download from that site. Even if you end up having to pay for a month's access, it is much less costly and immensely faster than going through NARA.
It is possible that he received some VA Bounty Land. If so, you can find the information from the VA State Library's web site index, free, and possibly there may be some downloadable documents. What they have is very variable. Since he appears to have been a Corporal, he may have been eligible to choose 7 years' half-pay in lieu of bounty land; you can find this information at the LVA site, too.
Good hunting,
Jade
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