"The western part of the land on which Plainfield now stands was patented to Jacob Alter in 1793 ... It was not, however, until 1812 that several parties - viz.: Jacob Weigel, blacksmith; Henry Weigel, wagon-maker ..." ... known as "Smoketown" [1]
[1] Samuel P. Bates, P. A. Durant, and J. Fraise Richard, History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania [Cumberland] (Warner, Beers:1886), 364, [GoogleBooks].