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 the local directory, though Beet & Senyers (see John & Samuel Saynor) was listed at Peacroft.  The latter’s trade mark ‘BRET’ had echoes of ‘BEET’.  Another conundrum was the listing of Samuel Taylor in the same directory, using the ‘BEET’ mark at Peacroft.  The same mark was also used by Widow Beet & Sons at Broad Lane (see Jonathan Beet).  Jeremiah’s death date is untraced.