| − | By 1787, Hooper's health had deteriorated. At the age forty-seven he was appointed to the Federal Bench, with one notable case involving a border dispute between Massachusetts and New York.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=s2GwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 Signers of the Continental Association]</ref> A year later, he retired altogether. He died in 1790 in Hillsborough at the age of forty-eight. His final home the Nash-Hooper House was added to the National Historic Landmarks in 1971, which is located in the Hillsborough Historic District. | + | By 1787, Hooper's health had deteriorated. At the age forty-seven he was appointed to the Federal Bench, with one notable case involving a border dispute between Massachusetts and New York.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=s2GwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 Signers of the Continental Association]</ref> A year later, he retired altogether. He died in 1790 in Hillsborough at the age of forty-eight. His remains were re-interred under the Signers Monument<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-DwTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA103 Makers of North Carolina History]</ref> together with [[John Penn]] at the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, which commemorates the [[Battle of Guilford Court House]]. |