Many of us find the title/occupation "torpare" for our ancestors when using Swedish records. The usual translation into English is "crofter". The problem is that crofter is British English and Americans still aren't sure what their ancestor did.
There is a very helpful article in "Swedish American Genealogist", the journal of the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center. Luckily for us, this journal and an article called "Torp and Torpare -- An Analysis" written by the late Nils William Olsson is scanned and online. This is a link to that journal. The article starts on page 10 of the scan, using the page numbers at the right.
Swedish American Genealogist journal Volume 30, number 2
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