Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 210 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
Amasya’nın Bâyezîd Paşa Mahallesi eşrâfından el-Hâc Mehmed Ağa mahdûmudur. Vüzerâdan Amasyalı Sarı Beyzâde Mehmed Paşa dâ’iresinde selâm ağası olup dergâh-ı âlî gediklisi olarak temâyüz etdi.
Ba’dehû Rus muhârebâtında ba’zı hizmetler görüp dergâh-ı âlî kapıcıbaşılarından oldu. 1188’de bade’s-sâliha avdet edib Amasya mukâta’ât emini olduğu halde 1193 senesi evâsıtında vefât etdi. Müdebbir, hânedân bir zât idi. [674]
He was the son of Hacı Mehmed Ağa, of the notables of the Bayezid Pasha Quarter of Amasya. He became the selâm ağası (master of greetings) in the mansion of the vizier Sarı Beyzâde Mehmed Pasha of Amasya and distinguished himself as a palace gedikli (permanent-post holder).
Later, after rendering some services in the Russian wars, he became one of the kapıcıbaşıs of the palace. After the peace in 1188 [1774-75] he returned, and while he was superintendent of revenue farms (mukataat emini) of Amasya he died in the middle of 1193 [1779]. He was a prudent and noble man.
What stands out in the record is that Ahmed Ağa returned to Amasya after his war service and became superintendent of revenue farms: the rank he won in the palace and in war turned into the management of a revenue in his hometown. The year 1188 corresponds to the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, signed in 1774. The year of his death, 1193, falls in 1779, the year of the conflict between the Canikli and Çapanoğlu families in Amasya; the text does not mention this conflict.
A search for Sarı Beyzâde Mehmed Pasha, named as his master, and for Ahmed Ağa did not reach a reliable source.