The first known member of the Çapanoğulları family (Çāpān-oghlu or Çabān-oghlu in Ottoman orthography; also known as Çaparoğulları, or as ʿAbd al-Jabbār-zāda in Arabic) is Çapar Ömer Ağa (Cabb ār ʿÖmer Agha), who died in 1116/1704, in the Anatolian province of Boz-oq (Bozok). His only son Ahmed (Aḥmed) Ağa/Paşa became active in local tax-(sub-)farming and revenue administration and served both as a voyvoda (an agent who collected revenues from tax-farms) and a mütesellim (revenue collection agent). He rose to the