Jeremiah Beet
In 1774, Jeremiah Beet was listed in the Sheffield directory as a pen knife cutler at New Peacroft. He stamped his ‘best blades’ with the mark ‘BEET’. Information on his life is scanty, though apprenticeship records suggest he may have been the son of Samuel Beet, a cutler. The latter had died by 1758, when Jeremiah was apprenticed to cutler John Nicholson, of Attercliffe, for eight years. Apparently, Jeremiah did not become a Freeman. In 1787, his name was absent from th....
