Herman Garrett (also known as Harman Garrett) (c. 1607 – c.1656/57) was an early American gunsmith, blacksmith, and landowner in colonial Massachusetts. Herman Garrett was from Wickham Market in England and in 1628 he married Susan Tofts in Ipswich. Garrett immigrated to Massachusetts by 1638 and worked as a gunsmith and blacksmith in Charlestown, Massachusetts until 1652 when he moved to Boston, Massachusetts. In 1640 Garrett hired John Edwards as an apprentice gunsmith in Charlestown with an agreement for Edwards to purchase Garrett's shop, but in 1642 Garrett received Edwards' property after a complaint was filed by Edwards alleging an inflated valuation of Garrett's property. In 1643 Garrett removed to Concord, Massachusetts to the house of Robert Hethersay who had previously granted G