Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 193 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
Amasya’da yeniçeri zâbitânından el-Hâc Yûsuf Ağa bin Gözdaş Mehmed Ağa bin Mustağa Ağa’nın oğludur. Bu da altmış yedi cemaâtinden bir yeniçeri olup alemdâr, defa’âtle Amasya serdârı ve İran muhârebâtında serdengeçtiler ağası, ba’dehû meclis-i hâciyân azâsı oldu. 1149 hudûdunda vefât etdi.
Diğer Kuloğlu Ahmed Ağa bin el-Hâc Halîl Ağa bin Mîr-livâ Mehmed Bey de sipâhi meşâhîrinden olup, mükerreren Amasya kethüdâyeri oldu. 1150 senesi hilâlinde vefât etdi.
He was one of the janissary officers of Amasya. Hacı Yûsuf Ağa was the son of Gözdaş Mehmed Ağa, who was the son of Mustafa Ağa. He was a janissary of the sixty-seventh cemaat of the janissaries. He became alemdar (standard-bearer), served many times as serdar of Amasya, became ağa of the serdengeçtis in the Persian wars, and then a member of the council of pilgrims. He died around 1149 [1736-37].
Another person, Kuloğlu Ahmed Ağa, was the son of Hacı Halîl Ağa, who was the son of Mîr-livâ (sanjak bey) Mehmed Bey. He was one of the well-known sipahis and served as kethüdâyeri of Amasya many times. He died at the start of the year 1150 [1737-38].
The entry's title is "Ahmed Ağa-Gözdaşoğlu el-Hâc", but the first paragraph names the man of the Gözdaş line as Hacı Yûsuf Ağa. In the second paragraph another man named Ahmed Ağa appears, introduced with the nickname Kuloğlu. This is how it stands in the printed text and it has not been changed here. Since in some entries Hüsameddin gathers several relatives or contemporaries under one title, the second paragraph, opening with the word "another", marks a move to a different person.
Both men lived in Amasya in the first half of the eighteenth century. That the first came from the janissaries and the second from the sipahis shows that the city's notables came from two separate military backgrounds. Yûsuf Ağa's membership of the "council of pilgrims" and Ahmed Ağa's kethüdâyeri post point to both having a say in local government. Their death dates are 1149 and 1150, which fall between 1736 and 1738. That "hudûd" (around) is said for Yûsuf Ağa and "hilâl" (start of the year) for Ahmed Ağa suggests that the author's records lacked an exact day.
The text speaks of the Persian wars but does not say which campaign; no source was found to settle it. No information on these two men was found in other sources.