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Carol,
Do you have a photocopy of the complete pension file, or a copy of someone's partial transcript?
You can see at least the original application free at HeritageQuest if your local library subscribes, just by entering a library card number or driver's license number. Some libraries have links from their sites, some provide the service from the library on their own computers.
You can also subscribe for a month to footnote.com and download the complete file. They have a free trial that supposedly allows downloading such files, but it did not work for me.
The original file jacket will say what his service was - State if not Regiment.
Giving his commanding officer as Colonel suggests that he served in militia or more likely State Troops.
I don't find a Col. Thomas Polk listed among the Continental Regiments' officers.
It will help if you give the exact date of the applicaton, and where he applied from. The application usually gives place of residence, or at least where the Court was located in which he made the affidavit.
If you will give this information we may be able to find a little more.
If you don't have the complete file giving name of wife and residences, how do you know this man is your ancestor? Did his wife apply for a widow's pension? If so, what exact date or dates and where did she live at the time?
Military records do not give parents' names, but sometimes can show where the soldier lived. The genealogical data will not be in the service information.
Good hunting,
Jade
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