What was the first Lodge created in the United States?

The "First Lodge in Boston," duly constituted on July 30, 1733, is identified as the first regular and duly constituted lodge in North America under standard authority 1. Henry Price convened ten brethren at the Bunch of Grapes tavern in Boston, produced his deputation as Provincial Grand Master for New England granted by Anthony Lord Viscount Montague, Grand Master of England, and formally constituted the lodge according to the Book of Constitutions 2.

Prior to 1733, Masons assembled in informal or "occasional" lodges without warrants, relying on the old operative custom of prescriptive right 14. Benjamin Franklin recorded references in 1730 to several such unchartered lodges meeting in Pennsylvania 34. One group assembled at the Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by prescriptive right before applying for a charter to Daniel Coxe, who received a deputation as Provincial Grand Master of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in June 1730 4. Mackey and Singleton hold that a constitutional lodge was established in Philadelphia under Coxe's authority in the latter part of 1730 4, whereas Claudy and Newton place the 1733 Boston lodge first in priority among regular, constituted bodies 1.