Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 308 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Amasya züamâsından Alaybeyi Sarı Ali Beyzâde Mehmed Bey’in mahdûmudur. Sipâhi olup Amasya kethüdâyeri, 1101’de nuzül emîni, 1106’da Yûsuf Paşa’ya intisâb ederek kethüdâsı oldu.
On yıl kadar müşârün-ileyhe hizmet edib 1116’da ihtiyâr-ı tekâüd ederek Amasya‘ya geldi. 1118 hudûdunda vefât etdi. Mahdûmu el-Hâc Ali Ağa’dır. Amasya ricâlinden bir merd-i gayûr idi.
He was the son of Mehmed Bey, known as Sarı Ali Beyzâde, a zeamet-holder of Amasya and alaybeyi. A sipahi, he became deputy steward (kethüda yeri) of Amasya, in 1101 [1689-90] nüzül emini, and in 1106 [1694-95] attached himself to Yusuf Paşa and became his steward (kethüda).
He served the pasha mentioned for about ten years and in 1116 [1704-05] retired of his own accord and came to Amasya. He died around 1118 [1706-07]. His son is Hacı Ali Ağa. He was one of the notables of Amasya, a zealous man who guarded his honor.
In the Ottoman treasury, nüzül was an in-kind tax levied on grain such as wheat and barley to feed an army going on campaign. The route was fixed in advance, and the grain demanded was either delivered to the nüzül emini present with the army or stored in granaries built for military purposes along the way. Collection, transport and delivery were generally the responsibility of the kadıs; at times officials sent from the center also collected it.
The year 1101 (1689-90), when Sarı Beyzâde took this post, falls in the years when the Ottoman army was campaigning on the Austrian front. It is known that Fâzıl Mustafa Paşa set out on his first campaign in Rumelia in Shawwal of the same year (July 1690). But no record could be read showing which campaign the post Hüsameddin gives was tied to, so no connection should be drawn.
Hüsameddin mentions the Yusuf Paşa whose steward Sarı Beyzâde became only by this name; the pasha's post, rank and full name are not given in the entry. No person matching this information could be identified in the searches. The place and events of the ten years of service are therefore unknown.
No information was found in other sources on the alaybeyi Sarı Ali Beyzâde Mehmed Bey or on his son Hacı Ali Ağa.