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Virginia,
Bounty Land Warrants were authorized by Congress (100 acres for Privates) for those who served in the Continental Regiments for 3 years or more.
At the time these were authorized, as incentives for enlistment, Congress did not determine where exactly the lands would be that could be claimed by the Land Warrants.
Many States did not have large tracts unclaimed lands within their boundaries. After the War's end, there was a lot of activity removing Native Americans militarily, conducting treaty and purchase arrangements to obtain rights to lands from Native Americans, and squabbling in Congress about various States' conflicting claims.
The upshot as far as VA was concerned was that Land Warrants for those who had VA service could be used to claim land in KY or in one of two tracts in Ohio.
No Warrants issued for service in PA Regiments (Continental) could be used in Ohio. A land grant in OH pursuant to a Rev. War Bounty Land Warrant would not be due to PA service.
The reason the Pension Office and the Land Office pointed to his service in "Pennsylvania Artillery" is because that was his last year of service, and his discharge was the only documentation that he himself could supply. It was his prior 5 years' service in the 8th VA and its reorganized form that underlay his Bounty Land Warrant.
There was no Regiment officially known as the Pennsylvania Artillery throughout the war. What was probably meant was the 4th Continental Artillery Regt., also known as Proctor's Artillery, which at the beginning of the war was organized as a PA Artillery Company. It, too, had gone through reorganization during the course of the war, but may have been 'commonly' or colloquially known as the Pennsylvania Artillery. In Micropublication #246, the microfilm rolls number 116 through 122 contain rosters and other data for the Artillery Regiments. The 4th Continental Artillery documents are on roll 120.
The War Office did have the rolls for the 8th VA and as reorganized/renamed, the 4th VA (Continental).
You can verify whether your Thomas was at Valley Forge at the National Park Service's Valley Forge web site
http://valleyforgemusterroll.org/
Click on "Muster Roll" for the search page. The site has extracts from the microfilmed service records I have described for you in an earlier post.
Good hunting,
Jade
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