Smithville honored its settlers and the first officers and officials chosen on March 7, 1809, to lead the town government: Dr. Isaac Grant, Town Supervisor; Jacob Carter, Town Clerk; Constant Chapman, Assessor; Eliphalet Eggleston, Assessor; Bela Cowles, Assessor; Elisha Harris, Commissioner of Highways; Edward Loomis, Commissioner of Highways and Pound Keeper; Jonathan Phelps, Commissioner of Highways; Silas Read, Overseer of the Poor; Reuben Crandall, Overseer of the Poor and Fence Viewer; John Agard, Tax Collector and Constable; Edward Purple, Constable; Frederick Cline, Constable; William Kirkland, Fence Viewer; Thomas Shattick, Fence Viewer and Pound Keeper; and Robert Hotchkiss, Pound Keeper.