"more familiar connection with three"???

https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2026/Senate/Maps/Jul29.html#item-5

Quoting John Winthrop:

Being filled with the joy of thy love, and wanting opportunity of more familiar connection with three

emphasis mine.

I had no idea what could be meant by "more familiar connection with three". A bit of googling around suggests that this is just a transcription error, and that it should read (the only thing which makes sense) "more familiar connection with thee".

A weird error to make. I saw that in some of the articles about Puritans and sex on the web, so maybe (Z) copied it from one of those.

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