Nybyggare

[Nancy Jaderen]

In my searching I have come across a few ancestors that were listed as nybyggare. This,for me,was translated as settler.Would this be considered as homesteader in the US.The one that caught my attention was born in  Ostanmyra,married in Floda,and was nybyggare i Karlsänge. This was in the mid 1600's.Was this a practice during this period of time to settle open areas of the country?

[Bo Johansson]

There were not really any open areas, but in the 1600s new farms were started in the forests of for example Värmland and Dalarna province, in later centuries further north in Norrland.
 
// Bo Johansson